Hans Jørgen Darre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian bishop
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Place of Birth: Klæbu, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
About Hans Jørgen Darre
- Hans Jørgen Darre (27 September 1803 – 11 March 1874) was a Norwegian clergyman and Bishop of Nidaros. Darre was born at Klæbu in Søndre Trondhjem, Norway.
- He was the son of the vicar in Klæbo and constitutional founding father, Jacob Hersleb Darre.
- He graduated as cand.theol.
- in 1827 and succeeded his father as vicar in Klæbu in 1833.
- He was the dean in the district of Dalerne from 1843 to 1848, and in March 1849 he took over as Bishop of the Diocese of Trondhjem (Nidaros).
- He retired in 1860 with a 1000 speciedaler pension.
- In 1872, he moved to a town near the Spanish-Portuguese border, where his daughter's husband worked in a mine.
- Hans Jørgen Darre died in Miraflores, Spain during 1874, his body brought back to Norway in December 1883.In Throndhjem, he was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
- He served as praeses of the society from 1851 to 1855 and 1870 to 1872.
- He was a Knight of the Order of St.
- Olav.One of his daughters, Jørgine Wilhelmine, married Lauritz Jenssen, a descendant of Matz Jenssen and Lauritz Dorenfeldt Jenssen.
- Through her, Hans Jørgen Darre was the grandfather of politicians Hans Jørgen Darre-Jenssen and Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen.
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