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Fredrik Stang
Norwegian politician (1867–1941)
Fredrik Stang (27 December 1867 – 15 November 1941) was a Norwegian law professor and politician for the Conservative Party. He served as a Member of Parliament, leader of the Conservative Party, Minister of Justice and the Police, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and Rector of The Royal Frederick University.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Fredrik Stang (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Dec 27, 1867, died Nov 15, 1941.1
About
His father was Prime Minister Emil Stang and his grandfather was Prime Minister Frederik Stang.
From Wikipedia’s article on Fredrik Stang, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- Conservative Party of NorwayChair 1907 to 191113
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Oslo Candidate of Law3
Career
Occupation: politician, law professor, Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway, non-fiction writer.7
- 1922 to 1941Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee5
- 1921 to 1927Rector of the University of Oslo5
- 1912 to 1913Minister of Justice and Public Security5
- 1907 to 1911Party leader, Conservative Party of Norway5
- 1907 to 1911Chair, Conservative Party of Norway6
- 1906 to 1909Member of the Parliament of Norway5
- Date not recordedWorked at University of Oslo4
- Date not recordedRector5
He obtained the cand.jur. degree in 1890. In 1897, he was appointed Professor of Jurisprudence at The Royal Frederick University. He served as a Member of Parliament 1906–1909, and was leader of the Conservative Party 1907–1911. He served as the Norwegian Minister of Justice and the Police 1912–1913. In 1918, he obtained the dr.juris degree, and also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen.
He was chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, responsible for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize, 1922–1940. He was rector of The Royal Frederick University 1921–1927 (and ex officio Dean of the Faculty of Law) and editor of Tidsskrift for Retsvidenskab 1921–1936.
From Wikipedia’s article on Fredrik Stang (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Personal life
He was born in Kristiania as the son of Prime Minister Emil Stang and his wife Adelaide Pauline Berg. He was a brother of Emil Stang Jr. and grandson of former Prime Minister Frederik Stang. Further out in the family, he was a third cousin of Ole A. Stang, Jørgen Breder Stang and Olaf Stang.
In 1894 he married Caroline Schweigaard (1871–1900), daughter of another former Prime Minister Christian Homann Schweigaard and granddaughter of Anton Martin Schweigaard and Thorvald Meyer. They had only one child Christian Schweigaard Stang, who became a well-known linguist.
From Wikipedia’s article on Fredrik Stang (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awards
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- 1WikidataFredrik Stang on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaFredrik Stang on Wikipedia
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- 14Wikimedia CommonsFredrik Stang photo by Rude & Hilfling, Public domain