Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull (13 September 1817 – 15 April 1907) was a Norwegian civil servant and government minister. He served as acting Minister of the Army in 1875 (twice), 1881 and 1884. He also served as

mayor of Oslo The Mayor of Oslo (Bokmål: ''Oslos ordfører''; Nynorsk: ''Oslos ordførar'') is the chief executive of Oslo. The Mayor's office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within O ...

in 1877 and 1878.

Background

He was born at

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...

, Norway. He was a son of Chief Justice

Georg Jacob Bull Georg Jacob Bull (1 August 1785 – 12 December 1854) was a Norway, Norwegian jurist and politician born in Oslo, Christiania, today Oslo. He was a stipendiary magistrate () of Bergen from 1810 to 1821. While stationed here, he was elected to the ...

(1785-1854) and Barbara Albertine Ørsted (1783-1865). His mother was a sister of Danish physicist

Hans Christian Ørsted Hans Christian Ørsted (; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes Transliteration, transliterated as Oersted ( ), was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as ...

and of Danish jurist

Anders Sandøe Ørsted Anders Sandøe Ørsted (21 December 1778 – 1 May 1860) was a Danish lawyer, politician and jurist. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark in 1853–1854. Biography He studied philosophy and law at the University of Copenhagen and was ...

. He was a grandson of Chief Justice

Johan Randulf Bull Johan Randulf Bull (29 April 1749 – 28 February 1829) was a Norwegian judge. He was born in Stod in Nordre Trondheim, as the brother of Johan Lausen Bull. He took the jurist examination in Copenhagen in 1778, and was a member of ''Det N ...

, a grandnephew of

Johan Lausen Bull Johan Lausen Bull (14 May 1751 – 29 July 1817) was a Norwegian jurist, politician and land owner. He lived most of his life in Denmark-Norway. Tøyen Manor He was born in Stod in Nordre Trondheim, Norway. He was the son of Captain Jørgen An ...

and an uncle of chief physician Edvard Isak Hambro Bull.

Career

In 1835, he became a student at

Bergen Cathedral School Bergen Cathedral School ( Norwegian: ''Bergen Katedralskole'', Latin: ''Schola Cathedralis Bergensis'', formerly known as Bergens lærdeskole and Bergen latinskole and colloquially known as Katten) is an upper secondary school in Bergen, Norway. L ...

. He joined the Ministry of the Army in 1837. In 1840, he became a legal candidate. He was a representative in 1846, bureau chief in 1850 and expedition secretary in 1854. He was appointed

General War Commissioner General War Commissioner (from ) was a military office in various German states as well as in Denmark-Norway. It was the military officer in charge of national conscription, collection of war contributions, equipment, provisioning, payroll and mili ...

of the Army in 1860. In 1875, he was acting Minister of the Army from 26 May to 4 June, and from 6 July to 20 July. He was also acting Minister of the Army from 16 September to 25 September 1881 and from 19 March to 2 April 1884. He later served as the

Mayor of Oslo The Mayor of Oslo (Bokmål: ''Oslos ordfører''; Nynorsk: ''Oslos ordførar'') is the chief executive of Oslo. The Mayor's office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within O ...

in 1877 and 1878.

Personal life

He was married in 1848 to Caroline Elisabeth Dahl (b. 1822), surviving daughter of the artist

Johan Christian Dahl Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (24 February 178814 October 1857), often known as or , was a Danish- Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting. He is often ...

. They had the son

Karl Sigwald Johannes Bull Karl Sigwald Johannes Bull (30 June 1860 – 27 December 1936) was a Norwegian military officer and politician for the Conservative Party. He is best known as the Norwegian Minister of Defence from 1910 to 1912. Personal life He was born on 30 ...

who would become Minister of Defence from 1910 to 1912.

References

1817 births 1907 deaths Government ministers of Norway Norwegian civil servants Mayors of Oslo Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{Norway-politician-1810s-stub