Johan Richard Krogness

He was born in Trondhjem as a son of merchant Erik Rolfsen Krogness and Ingeborg Jensdatter.

[2] Krogness took the examen artium in 1835 and went on to study law, but quit higher education before graduating.

He returned to Trondhjem as a merchant from 1841 before settling at the manor Karlslyst in Hommelvigen,[3] where he was a ship-owner and ran a brickworks.

[1] Krogness befriended Henrik Wergeland while he was a student, later Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and was a close follower of Johan Sverdrup in parliamentary politics.

[3] He missed the 1871 session due to illness, and died in February the year after[1] from "weakness of the chest".