Andreas Tanberg Gløersen

Who was Andreas Tanberg Gløersen?

Hans Andreas Tanberg Gløersen was a Norwegian forest manager.

He was born in Nord-Aurdal as a son of physician Jørgen Gustav Gløersen and Gunda Sophie Cathrine Tanberg. He took his examen artium in 1853, gained a law degree in 1858, followed by a degree in forestry at Giessen in 1860. He was appointed as a forestry assistant in Lesja in the same year. In 1864 he was sent to Western Norway to assess its forests, and from 1866 to 1895 he was the forest manager for the entire Western Norway plus Lister og Mandals Amt, but without Romsdals Amt. He also edited the magazine Landbrugstidende for Vestlandet from 1885 to 1891.

Gløersen has been credited for launching the ideas of the railways the Jæren Line at a public meeting in 1866, and the Voss Line through a letter to the editor in Bergensposten. In both cases he provided detailed suggestions for the route, ideas that to a great extent were followed when the lines were constructed.

From February 1868 he was married to Rachel Marie Carlsen. After his wife died, Gløersen moved to Kristiania. He was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1895, and died in Kristiania in September 1904.