Anders Daae was a Norwegian prison director.

Personal life

He was born in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

 a son of vicar Hans Daae and his wife Anne Johanne Christie. He was a brother of customs inspector Iver Munthe Daae. He was also a first cousin once removed of priest and politician Claus Nils Holtzrod Daae and historian and politician Ludvig Kristensen Daa

Ludvig Kristensen Daa

Ludvig Kristensen Daa was a Norwegian historian, ethnologist, auditor, editor of magazines and newspapers, educator and politician....

, and a second cousin of jurist and politician Ludvig Daae, physician Anders Daae

Anders Daae (physician)

-Personal life:He was born in Fjeld a son of vicar Jens Kobro Daae and his wife Nicoline Friis Daae. His mother was his father's first cousin, as well as a sister of historian and politician Ludvig Kristensen Daa...

, historian Ludvig Daae

Ludvig Daae

Ludvig Daae was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was the Norwegian Minister of the Army from 1884 to 1885....

 and Suzannah Daae Ibsen

Suzannah Ibsen

Suzannah Ibsen was the wife of playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen.-Biography:Suzannah Daae Thoresen was born in Herøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Her parents were Hans Conrad Thoresen and his second wife, Sara Margrethe Daae...

.

In July 1863 in Chicago

Chicago

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, USA he married Anne Honoria Hanssen. They had the son Hans Daae, a general in the medical corps.

Career

Daae finished his secondary education at Nissen School in Christiania

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 in 1855, and took the cand.med.

Cand.med.

Candidate of Medicine , Candidata Medicinae , abbreviated Cand. Med.) is an academic degree awarded in Denmark, Iceland and Norway following a six-year medical school education....

 degree in 1861. He worked as a physician in various places, among others in the American Civil War

American Civil War

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. From 1864 to 1887 he ran a physician's office in Kragerø

Kragerø

is a town and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vestmar. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kragerø....

. From 1887 to 1892 he was the director of Trondhjems Strafanstalt, a jail in Trondhjem

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, and from 1892 he was the director of Bodsfængslet, a notable prison in Kristiania. He died in December 1910 in Kristiania.