Famous People with Name Bror

Bror Holger Svedlin            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Bror Holger Svedlin: claims that his family line (Boxström) has been keepers of an ancient folklore tradition passed down through the generations, that provides insight into the pagan culture of Finland and its history, including an outline of a frivolous sexuality connected to fertility rites.

Bror Lagercrantz            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Bror Lagercrantz: was a Swedish Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Bror Yngve Rahm            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Bror Yngve Rahm: is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark in 1997, and was re-elected on one occasion.Rahm was a member of Telemark county council during the term 1995–1999.

Theodor Johan Christian Ambders Brorsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Theodor Johan Christian Ambders Brorsen: was a Danish astronomer best known for his discovery of five comets, including the lost periodic comet 5D/Brorsen and the periodic comet 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf.Brorsen worked at the astronomical observatory of Kiel (1846) and of Altona, Hamburg (1847). He rejected a job offer from the astronomical oberservatory "Rundetaarn" (Round tower) in Copenhagen. Instead, he accepted a job at the private observatory of baron John Parish (1774-1858, an Englishman, also known as Freiherr von Senftenberg) in Žamberk (at the time called Senftenberg) in the present-day Czech Republic. When the post of the director of the astronomical observatory of Altona became vacant in 1854, Brorsen applied to it, but was not chosen. After the death of baron Parish in 1858, his heirs had the observatory of Senftenberg dismantled and the astronomical instruments sold although Brorsen offered to continue his work for free. Nevertheless Brorsen remained twelve further years in Senftenberg and continued his observations with his own instruments.

Hans Adolph Brorson            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Hans Adolph Brorson: was a Danish Pietist bishop and hymn writer. He began publishing hymns in 1732 while a pastor in southern Jutland. His most important work was Troens rare klenodie (1739; "The Rare Jewel of the Faith"), which contained many translations of German Pietist hymns and 82 original pieces and went though seven editions in Brorson's lifetime. He was elected bishop of Ribe in 1741, where he remained for the rest of his life. His outward social success as a clerical administrator was contrasted by private sorrows (an insane son, the early death of his first wife) but he resigned himself to his fate. Some of these problems are probably reflected in a second book of hymns, Svanesang ("Swan Song"), that was published posthumously in 1765. From this collection must be mentioned the still popular and hopeful funeral hymn Her vil ties (“Here will be silent”)