Jacob Nicolai Wilse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacob Nicolai Wilse

Norwegian priest and meteorologist

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1736

Place of Birth: Lemvig, Central Denmark Region, Denmark

Date of Death: 23-May-1801

Profession: priest, meteorologist

Nationality: Norway, Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jacob Nicolai Wilse (January 24, 1736 – May 23, 1801) was a parish priest in Spydeberg and Eidsberg, Norway.
He was born in Lemvig, Denmark and is known for writing topographic works with extensive descriptions of travel in Norway in the 1790s.
Wilse is considered Østfold county's first significant cultural researcher and one of the fathers of Norwegian village history.
His friend Hans Strøm also wrote topographical works for Sunnmøre and Eiker.
Like Strøm, Wilse authored one of the first descriptions of the relationship between nature and human activity.
He was also an Enlightenment-era philosopher, a so-called "potato priest" (Norwegian: potetprest).
Wilse was an early supporter of Norway having its own university, and he also envisioned a women's university.



Description	Norwegian photographer father of Robert Charles Wilse
Date of birth/death	12 June 1865	21 February 1949
Location of birth/death	Flekkefjord	Oslo
Work period	1900–49
Work location	Kristiania (Oslo), Kragerø, Seattle
Authority control	: Q144339 VIAF: 11872032 ISNI: 0000 0000 3745 2319 LCCN: no92001066 Open Library: OL465293A GND: 1061736962 WorldCat