Jens Christian Berg
Jens Christian Berg ( born September 23, 1775 in Copenhagen, † June 4, 1852 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian jurist and historian.
Family
His parents, the Director of the Royal lottery number in Copenhagen, later pin office clerk in Trondheim Niels Jensen Berg (1738-1798) and his wife Marie Margrethe were Flor ( 1744-1817 ). In his first marriage he married on June 15, 1803 Hedevig Marie Elizabeth Wessel († April 18, 1816 ), daughter of Premier Lieutenant and later Major Joachim Wessel ( 1739-1791 ) and his wife Susanna Maria Vagel ( 1748-1820 ). His second wife he married on November 25, 1817 Juliane Marie Haxthausen ( 1784-1847 ), daughter of General Frederik of Haxthausen ( 1750-1825 ) and his wife Catherine of Oldenburg ( 1765-1843 ). The marriage was divorced in 1825.
Youth and career
Jens Christian Berg was a lawyer, but he is primarily known as a historian. He tried to portray the Norwegian story from a Norwegian point of view, in which he cast a negative light on the time of the union with Denmark.
He spent his teenage years in Trondheim, but then grew up in Christiania in 1792 and began his studies in Copenhagen. He was employed at " Det Kongelige Library ", but returned without a university degree back to Norway when his father died. He strove for a teaching job at the cathedral, but had to give way after a year Georg Sverdrup. In 1800 he began studying law and supported himself as an assistant in the Rentkammer. By his uncle, the former office manager in the county of Jarlsberg, he got a job as Sorenbirkeskriver in Sondre Jarlsberg. After a short time he put in Copenhagen, the legal examination in, got married and settled in Gulli in Sem (now municipality Anbu ) down.
He was a supporter of Herman Wedel - Jarlsbergs policy of the connection of Norway with Sweden, was his friend, took him in 1814 and the special session of the Storting and participated in the final editing of the November Constitution of 1814. The government appointed him a judge of the Superior Court of pin - Akershus, and so he moved to Christiania. For a time he was assessor of the Supreme Court and decided in the imperial court against General Frederik Haxthausen. This was his father later.
Politically, he took a proschwedische and government- loyal attitude and showed no sympathy for the national aspirations of the peasants. He was from 1816 to 1817 in the delegation in the negotiations with Denmark on the financial consequences of the union resolution, there was, however, unsuccessful. He worked on the new Criminal Code of 1828 and the Commission, which had investigated the incidents involving " Torvslaget " with. From 1817 he also sat in the Directorate of Banking in Christiania and later in the Directorate of " Norges Bank". He was from 1837 to 1846 a member of the Municipal Council of Christiania. A fall on the ice in the week after Christmas in 1843 resulted in a permanent disability, so he had to resign from all public offices. With a good board he lived his studies until 1852.
Historical research
Early mountain began with the collection of historical documents. He compiled an extensive private archive and a large library. He wrote soon in Norwegian and Danish magazines, and was also a time while the cashier in the " Topographisk Selskab for Norge ". In 1812 he was a member of the " Det Norske Kongelige Videnskabers Selskab ". In his historical research he devoted himself particularly to the " Danish time." In 1803 he was the first print to the act for the heritability of absolutist government of Denmark and Norway ( Enevoldsarveregjeringsakten ) of 18 October 1660. He also contributed to Kraft's topografisk - Statistiske Beskrivelse ( Topographical and statistical description) from 1820 to 1825. Historisk Underretning om Landeværnet tillige med Nogle Efterretninger om Norges staa end Haer i Almindelighed (Historical Report on the Landwehr with some news about the standing army of Norway in general. ), His greatest work appeared, 1830. He also acted as directors in the preparation of six large volumes on the Norwegian language and history ( det norske Folks Sprog Samlinger til og history., 1838 ) with, as issued by the "Association for Norwegian language and history " as a collective work of many authors. Many contributions come from the mountain. But he put the Danish rule over Norway in the Union time in an extremely bad light, he let the different conditions in the previous times overlooked.
He left few closed plants. Most of the works are scattered in published historical, political and legal journals.
Mountain in 1816 Knight of the Order of the North Star and 1847 Knights of St. Olav's Order.