{{Short description|Norwegian barrister}} '''Johan Christian Heuch Bugge''' (15 April 1883 – 3 July 1972) was a Norwegian barrister.

==Personal life== He was born in Stavanger<ref name=merkbio>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Bugge, (Johan Christian) Heuch|url=https://runeberg.org/merkbio/0192.html|encyclopedia=Merkantilt biografisk leksikon|publisher=Yrkesforlaget|location=Oslo|edition=1st|editor-last=Hoffstad|editor-first=Einar|editor-link=Einar Hoffstad|year=1935|page=116|access-date=29 September 2012|language=Norwegian}}</ref> to Christian August Bugge (1853–1928) and Dina Alette Danielsen.<ref name=heh-1968/> This was the Mandal lineage of the Bugge family. Heuch Bugge was a nephew of Supreme Court Justice Geirulf Bugge, civil servant Erling Bugge and businessperson Jens Andreas Hjorth Bugge, brother of art historian Anders Ragnar Bugge and first cousin of tax director Karl Ludvig Bugge.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Mandal-slekten Bugge|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|url=http://www.snl.no/Mandal-slekten_Bugge|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 May 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130703153146/http://www.snl.no/Mandal-slekten_Bugge|archivedate=3 July 2013}}</ref><ref>[https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1912/0048.html ''Hvem er hvem?'' 1912]</ref>

He married Eldbjørg Due, daughter of stock exchange commissioner Reidar Due (1862&ndash;1953), in 1918.<ref name=heh-1968/> They had three daughters.<ref name=studfra>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Bugge, Johan Christian Heuch|encyclopedia=Studentene fra 1901. Biografiske opplysninger samlet til 25-årsjubileet|year=1926|language=Norwegian|pages=52–53}}</ref> He was also an uncle of politician Reidar Due.

==Career== After middle school in Kongsberg he attended school in Giessen and Leipzig, Germany, before moving to Kristiania. He finished his secondary education at Frogner School in 1901, took officer's training in 1902 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur. degree in 1907. He worked as junior solicitor in Hamar, then deputy judge in Numedal and Sandsvær from 1908 to 1910. He was again a junior solicitor in Kristiania until 1913, then an attorney in Vikersund for some time before finally settling in Kristiania.<ref name=merkbio/><ref name=studfra/>

He became a barrister in 1916, and after working as judicial consultant and board secretary in De-No-Fa from 1918, he started his own law firm in 1924. In 1930 it was expanded with the barristers Christopher Frederick Hawkins Borchgrevink and Sandborg, creating the firm ''Bugge, Borchgrevink og Sandborg'' which had downtown offices in ''Øvre slottsgate 14''.<ref name=merkbio/> Among others he was active in the legal purge in Norway after World War II, as a public defender of Peter Harsem,<ref>{{cite news|title=P. A. Harsem og E. Reichborn Kjennerud for retten tirsdag|work=VG|date=11 August 1949|page=1|language=Norwegian}}</ref> Svein Svendsen,<ref>{{cite news|title="Postdirektør" Svendsen tiltales for angiveri|work=VG|date=26 November 1947|page=6|language=Norwegian}}</ref> and Ulrich Stang.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ulrich Stang for lagmannsrett tirsdag|work=VG|date=21 August 1948|page=2|language=Norwegian}}</ref>

He was chairman of the board of the companies ''Lille Frøens Tomteselskap'' and ''Norsk Papirtextil'', and board member of ''Norflex Glidelåsfabrikk'', Norske Zinkprodukter, Nordenfjeldske Teglverk and Dreyers Forlag.<ref name=heh-1968>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Hvem er Hvem? |year=1968 |title=Bugge, Johan Christian Heuch |page=88 |edition=10 |editor-first=Bjørn |editor-last=Steenstrup |location=Oslo |publisher=Aschehoug |language=Norwegian }}</ref> He chaired the supervisory council of Oslo Handelsbank.<ref>{{cite news|title=Oslo Handelsbank A/S|work=VG|date=6 March 1965|page=3|language=Norwegian}}</ref>

He was decorated with the Norwegian Defence Medal 1940–1945.<ref name=heh-1968/> He died in July 1972.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=1973|title=Fortegnelse over personer som siste gang er omtalt i utgaven 1968 med angivelse av deres dødsdatum|encyclopedia=Hvem er hvem?|editor=Steenstrup, Bjørn|publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo|url=https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1973/0624.html|page=624|language=Norwegian|access-date=29 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Dødsfall|work=Aftenposten|date=5 July 1972|page=11|language=Norwegian}}</ref> His funeral took place at Vestre gravlund.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bisettelser|work=Aftenposten|date=8 July 1972|page=14|language=Norwegian}}</ref>

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