About Herman Baars
Lived 1822 – 1896 (aged 74). Herman Baars was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.
Herman Brunchorst Baars (13 April 1822 – 5 September 1896) 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 (1832–1881).
He took a business education, and worked as a city treasurer 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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Who was Herman Baars?
Norwegian fisheries commissioner (1822–1896)
When was Herman Baars born?
Herman Baars was born on 13 April 1822.
When did Herman Baars die?
Herman Baars died on 5 September 1896.
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Herman Baars was a businessperson and politician.
What nationality was Herman Baars?
Herman Baars was Norwegian.
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