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Herman Baars

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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.[1] He was a cousin of Fredrik Georg Gade.[2] In 1855 he married Margrethe Elisabeth Konow (1832–1881).[1]

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.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Nordgaard, Ole (1925). "Baars, Herman Brunchorst". In Bull, Edvard; Krogvig, Anders; Gran, Gerhard (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 2 (1 ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug.
  2. ^ Paulson, Andreas (1929). "Gade, Fredrik Georg". In Bull, Edvard; Jansen, Einar (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 4 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 334–335.