Herman Baars

Deceased Person

1822 – 1896

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Who was Herman Baars?

Herman Brunchorst Baars was a Norwegian fisheries commissary.

He was born in Bergen as a son of Søren Baars and his wife Divert Brunchorst. He was a cousin of Fredrik Georg Gade. In 1855 he married Margrethe Elisabeth Konow.

He took a business education, and worked as a city terasurer in Bergen from 1868. He was the Norwegian commissary at the international fisheries exhibitions in Amsterdam 1861 and Boulogne-sur-Mer 1866, and secretary at the exhibition in Bergen in 1865. He was also a delegate to world's fairs, including the Centennial Exposition of 1876. In all his work had a "large significance" for fisheries in Norway, wrote Norsk biografisk leksikon.

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Born
Apr 13, 1822
Bergen
Died
Sep 5, 1896

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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