Background
He was born in Bergen a son of vicar Hans Daae and his wife Anne Johanne Christie.
He was born in Bergen a son of vicar Hans Daae and his wife Anne Johanne Christie.
Daae finished his secondary education at Nissen School in Christiania in 1855, and took the candidate.med. degree in 1861. He worked as a physician in various places, among others in the American Civil War. From 1864 to 1887 he ran a physician"s office in Kragerø.
From 1887 to 1892 he was the director of Trondhjems Strafanstalt, a jail in Trondhjem, and from 1892 he was the director of Bodsfængslet, a notable prison in Kristiania.
He died in December 1910 in Kristiania.