Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Eur
Post-mortem photograph of the Norwegian theologian Bernhard Pauss with flowers, photographed by Gustav Borgen, Christiania, November 1907
Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888.
Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.
Syrian bishop seated in state at his funeral (ca. 1945).
Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss was a Norwegian theologian, educator, author, and missionary leader, known for his foundational role in advancing women's education in Norway.
Post-mortem photography
…Post-mortem photograph of the Norwegian theologian Bernhard Pauss with flowers, photographed by Gustav Borgen, Christiania, November 1907 Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased…
B.C. Pauss, photographed by Gustav Borgen
B.C. Pauss, portrait owned by Oslo Museum
Nissen's Girls' School in Niels Juels gate 56 at Frogner, Oslo. The property was bought by Bernhard Pauss in 1897, who commissioned the construction of the building, which was completed in 1899
His second wife Anna Henriette Wegner (1841–1918), a daughter of the industrialist Benjamin Wegner