Westye Egeberg

Westye Egeberg (16 August 1770 – 27 February 1830) was a Danish-born Norwegian businessman who founded Westye Egeberg & Co., a Norwegian timber company that existed from 1800 to 1929.

Early life and family Westye Egeberg was born on 16 August 1770 in Lysabild on the island of Als in Denmark to parish priest Martin Egeberg and (1718–1780) and Fredrikke Hahnefeldt (died 1784). He was their eighth and youngest child and only son. When Egeberg was 10, his father died, followed by his mother four years later, leaving him an orphan at the age of 14. A year later, he travelled to Copenhagen, before relocating to Norway the following year in 1786.

On 16 March 1802, Egeberg married Anna Sophie Muus (1775–1862) in Christiania (now Oslo), and together they had nine children, Thirteen years later in 1824, Egeberg bought another third of the Gansbruket timber lands from Carsten Tank.