Axel Camillo Eitzen (1851–1937), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian ship-owner (1851–1937)
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About Axel Camillo Eitzen (1851–1937)
- Axel Camillo Eitzen (30 January 1851 – 1937) was a Norwegian ship-owner. He was born in Drøbak as a son of postmaster Johan Laur.
- Eitzen and Cecilia Catharina Cappelen .
- In 1879 he married ship-owner's daughter Caroline Johanne Hansen.He finished school in Sarpsborg and started a career at sea in 1867.
- He became a shipmaster and worked as such until 1890.
- From then he was a full-time ship-owner and shipbroker.
- In 1883 he had founded the company Camillo Eitzen, which grew to a major corporation. He was a board member of Kristiania Port Authority from 1905 to 1911, and of the Nordisk Defence Club.
- He died in 1937.
- His son Axel Camillo Eitzen became co-owner in the family company, which was later renamed Tschudi & Eitzen, and another son Johan emigrated to Uruguay to pursue enterprises there.
- He was the Norwegian General Consul in Montevideo Uruguay.
- He married Maria Magdalena Ramayon and had a son Johan and twin girls Elsa and Maria Magdalena (Maggie) Eitzen.
- Elsa Eitzen married and divorced Carlos Deus and had a girl named Maria Cristina Deus Eitzen.
- Elsa remarried Dirk van der Kaay and had a girl named Solveig van der Kaay Eitzen.
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