Margrethe Petronelle SVERDRUP

Notes:

She had 5 children with Knud Carl August Holt in Oslo between 1872 and 1884.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lawyer, Norwegian Prime Minister

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Johan Sverdrup

Born: 30-Jul-1816
Birthplace: Jarlsberg, Norway
Died: 17-Feb-1892
Location of death: Oslo, Norway
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Head of State
Nationality: Norway
Executive summary: Norwegian Prime Minister, 1884–89
Norwegian statesman, born at Jarlsberg on the 30th of July 1816. His father, Jakob Sverdrup, was a land steward, and the founder of the first school of agriculture in Norway. Johan entered the Storting in 1850, sitting first for Laurvik, and then for the district of Akershus, and was its president from 1871 to 1884, during the whole of the dispute over the prerogative of the Crown. He built up a strong political party, which, relying for support chiefly on the Norwegian peasantry, was determined to secure strict constitutional government and practically to destroy the power of the king. Under his leadership the opposition, in 1872, secured the passing of a bill for the admission of the ministers to the Storting, which was a step to the establishment of the dependence of the cabinet on a majority in that assembly. King Charles XV refused his sanction to this bill, and on its third passing in 1880 Oscar II opposed his veto, at the same time claiming his right to the absolute veto. Sverdrup then proposed the proclamation of the law in defiance of the king's action. The retirement of Frederik Stang removed Sverdrup's chief political opponent from the field. He was aided in his campaign by Björnstjerne Björnson, and after a series of political crises he became prime minister in June 1884. But when he became prime minister he soon found himself at issue with Björnson on church matters. Inspired chiefly by his nephew Johan he secured the refusal of a pension to the novelist Kielland because of his anti-clerical views, and he further wished to give the parish councils the right to strike off the voting list persons who had broken away from church discipline. Therefore, although during his term of office no fewer than eighty-nine measures, many of them involving useful reforms, became law, he failed to satisfy the extremists among his supporters, and was driven to rely on the moderate Liberals. He was compelled to retire in 1889, and died on the 17th of February 1892 at Christiania (now Oslo.)

Johan married Caroline Louise Gundelle SØRENSEN on 14 Oct 1844 in Brunlanes, Vestfold, Norway. Caroline was born on 18 Oct 1819 in Copenhagen, Denmark; died on 18 Jan 1883 in Nordal, Østre Aker, Oslo, Akershus, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jacob became an expert in land management and established the first agricultural school in Norway.

Birth:
På Laugen

Jacob married Jean Gundelle Birgitte SCHANCH on 19 Aug 1802. Jean was born on 1 Feb 1780 in Norway; died on 22 Dec 1820 in Jarlsberg Sems, Vestfold, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Rudersdal?

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A large land-owner in northern Norway.

Peder married Hilleborg Margrethe SCHULTZ on 7 Jul 1761 in Nærøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Hilleborg was born on 27 Mar 1743 in Molde, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; died on 17 Mar 1828 in Namdalen, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Laugen gård