Johan_Richard_Krogness

Johan Richard Krogness

Johan Richard Krogness

Norwegian businessman and politician

Johan Richard Krogness (11 March 1814 – 3 February 1872) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.

portrait of Johan Richard Krogness

He was born in Trondhjem as a son of merchant Erik Rolfsen Krogness and Ingeborg Jensdatter.[1] His half-sister Ingeborg Krogness was the mother of Erik Vullum.[2]

Krogness took the examen artium in 1835 and went on to study law, but quit higher education before graduating. He returned to Trondhjem as a merchant from 1841 before settling at the manor Karlslyst in Hommelvigen,[3] where he was a ship-owner and ran a brickworks.[4]

Krogness served as mayor of Strinden. He was a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway in 1851 and was elected in 1853, and was re-elected in 1856, 1859, 1862, 1865, 1868 and 1870, representing the rural constituency of Søndre Trondhjems Amt.[1]

Krogness befriended Henrik Wergeland while he was a student, later Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and was a close follower of Johan Sverdrup in parliamentary politics. As such, Krogness was one of the forerunners of the Liberal Party.[3] He missed the 1871 session due to illness, and died in February the year after[1] from "weakness of the chest".[4] He was married to Danish woman Elisabeth Lucie Marie Biering.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Lindstøl, Tallak (1914). Biografier A-K. Stortinget og statsraadet 1814-1914 (in Norwegian). Vol. 1. p. 513.
  2. [2]
    Noreng, Harald. "Erik Vullum". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  3. [3]
    Koht, Halvdan (1938). "Krogness, Johan Richard". In Jansen, Einar; Brøgger, A.W. (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 8 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 54–55.
  4. [4]
    Personalhistorie for Trondhjems by og omegn i et tidsrum af circa 1 1/2 aarhundrede, by Chr. Thaulow. Hosted by Trondheim public library.
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