Niels Andreas Vibe

Niels Andreas Vibe (12 July 1759 – 9 September 1814) was a Norwegian military officer and civil and royal servant.

He was born in Rollag as a son of Major Johan Christian Vibe (1716–1764) and Anne Cathrine Pihl (1725–1773).

[1] Another daughter Nicoline Vibe married Heinrich Arnold Thaulow, who was her second cousin.

[2] Niels Andreas Vibe was also a great-grandfather of Henrik Dedichen and Carl Looft.

Already from 1781 he worked for the institution that many years later became known as the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority, notably with triangulation.