Carl Christian August Jacob Bonnevie (5 August 1849 – 19 December 1917) was a Norwegian physician and politician. He was born in

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as a son of physician Nils Emanuel Andreas Bonnevie and Augusta Lorentzen. He finished his secondary education in 1866 and graduated with the

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degree in 1873. He settled in

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, from 1873 a physician in the private sector, from 1897 as

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(). He was a board member of the

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and ''Den norske nationalforening mot tuberkulose''. He was elected to the city council of Drammen in 1895, and served as mayor from 1898 to 1901. He was elected as a deputy representative to the

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in the

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and the 1915 election, from the constituency

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. He died in 1917.

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1849 births 1917 deaths Norwegian general practitioners Deputy members of the Storting Free-minded Liberal Party politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians Politicians from Drammen Mayors of places in Buskerud {{Norway-politician-1840s-stub