Christian Andreas Irgens

Christian Andreas Irgens was a Norwegian businessman and Member of parliament.

Biography

He was born in Bergen, Norway as the son of Johan Daniel Stub Irgens and Susanne Cathrine Møller. Through his father he was a distant relative of Jens Stub who was a member of the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814.
Irgens was a member of the Bergen City Council. At that time he worked as a businessman operating the Bjørsvik Flour Mill on Osterfjorden outside Bergen. He had been a deputy representative in 1874-1878 and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1895, representing the rural constituency Søndre Bergenhus Amt.
Irgens married twice; Marcel Ingeborg Marie Wesenberg, Sally Camilla Jahnsen. He died during 1915 in the Fjøsanger area of Bergen.