Niels Hertzberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Niels Hertzberg

Norwegian politician

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1759

Place of Birth: Finnås, Hordaland, Norway

Date of Death: 21-Oct-1841

Profession: priest, politician

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Niels Hertzberg

  • Niels Hertzberg (13 August 1759 – 21 October 1841) was a Norwegian priest and politician.He was born at Finnås in Hordaland, Norway.
  • He was the eldest son of vicar Peder Harboe Hertzberg (1728–1802) and Christiane Winding (1737–1801).
  • He was first married, from November 1786, to Maria Elisabeth Weinwich (1759–1818).
  • After her death, he married Anne Christine Egede Thomsen (1789–1860).
  • His son, Nils Christian Egede Hertzberg (1827–1911) was a theologian, educator and politician.
  • His daughter Maja Elisabeth Weinwich Hertzberg (1824–1881) was the wife of author Claus Pavels Riis (1826–1886).
  • He was also a great-grandfather of Canadian Major Generals Charles Hertzberg (1886–1944) and Halfdan Hertzberg.He attended Bergen Cathedral School from 1776 to 1778, and graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a cand.theol.
  • degree in 1783.
  • He pursued an ecclesiastic career as priest at Kvinnherad from 1786 and then as vicar of Kinsarvik Church and Ullensvang Church from 1804 to his death.
  • From 1810 to 1832 he also doubled as dean of Hardanger og Voss deanery.
  • He was elected to the very first Parliament of Norway in 1814 as a representative of Søndre Bergenhus Amt (now Hordaland).He was also a topographic writer.
  • He was a fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1806, and was decorated as a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1811.
  • He died in October 1841 at Ullensvang.

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