Personal life

He was born in Risør

Risør

is a city and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The city belongs to the traditional region of Sørlandet. It is a popular tourist place. The surrounding area includes many small lakes and hills, and is known for its beautiful coastline as well....

 as a son of Mathias Wogen Bruun (1791–1858) and Ingeborg Carstensen (1794–1882). His wife was a relative of founding father Henrik Carstensen

Henrik Carstensen

Henrik Carstensen was a Norwegian merchant, ironworks owner and politician. He represented Risør at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814.-References:...

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In 1859 he married Maren Sibylle Bull Foyn (1840–1918), a daughter of Laurentius Føyn, Jr and niece of noted whaler Svend Foyn

Svend Foyn

Svend Foyn was a Norwegian whaling and shipping magnate who pioneered revolutionary methods for hunting and processing whales. Svend Foyn introduced the modern harpoon gun and brought whaling into a modern age....

. They had three sons and two daughters. Their second son Carsten Henrik Bruun, Jr.

Carsten Henrik Bruun, Jr.

Carsten Henrik Bruun was a Norwegian military officer, sport shooter and businessperson.He was born in Tønsberg as the second son of ship-owner Carsten Henrik Carstensen Bruun and Maren Sibylle Bull Foyn . He was an older brother of Svend Foyn Bruun, and as such an uncle of Svend Foyn Bruun, Jr...

 was a chief executive, and their third son Svend Foyn Bruun

Svend Foyn Bruun, Sr.

Svend Foyn Bruun, Sr. was a Norwegian naval officer, ship-owner and whaler, and politician for the Conservative Party. He ran the company Bruun & von der Lippe from 1919 to 1945, co-founded Kosmos and was a four term member of the Parliament of Norway.-Personal life:He was born in Tønsberg as a...

 was a naval officer, ship-owner, whaler and politician. Through the latter, Carsten Bruun was a grandfather of Svend Foyn Bruun, Jr

Svend Foyn Bruun, Jr.

Svend Foyn Bruun, Jr. was a Norwegian ship-owner and whaler.He was born in Kristiania, as a son of Svend Foyn Bruun and Ellen Bruusgaard . He was a grandson of Carsten Henrik Bruun and nephew of Carsten Henrik Bruun, Jr.He enrolled in law studies in 1946 and took the cand.jur. degree in 1950...

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Career

Bruun was involved in whaling

Whaling

Whaling is the hunting of whales mainly for meat and oil. Its earliest forms date to at least 3000 BC. Various coastal communities have long histories of sustenance whaling and harvesting beached whales...

 and sealing from 1851. was a shipmaster of whaling vessels, including Isbjørn which belonged to Svend Foyn and Harald Haarfagre which belonged to Tho. Joh. Heftye. For the company Tho. Joh. Heftye between 1872 and 1879 he participated, as the first Norwegian, in whaling in the Baffin Bay

Baffin Bay

Baffin Bay , located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is connected to the Atlantic via Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea...

. In the company Bruuns Hvalfangerselskap he was the owner of the ship Immanuel. The company had whaling stations in Sør-Varanger

Sør-Varanger

Sør-Varanger is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Sør-Varanger was separated from the municipality of Vadsø on 1 July 1858.-Name:...

 and Båtsfjord

Båtsfjord

Båtsfjord is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Båtsfjord.Vardø herred was separated from the town of Vardø in 1868 to be a municipality of its own. In 1957, the municipality was renamed Båtsfjord...

, and participated in the extinction of whales in Varangerfjorden. His ventures in Finnmark lasted from 1881 to 1899. Bruun received a gold medal from the French Academy and was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.