Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie

Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie (* 1778 in Kristiansund, † 1849) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician.

Christie first studied law and passed his examination in 1799. He was secretary for the Danish firm in 1801 bis 1808. He returned to Norway to work in Bergen as a District Judge for Nordhordland.

He belonged to the group Quodlibet, a group of managerial men with political and literary interests. In March 1814 these numerous meetings on the independence question from stopped, as on the question of the Basic Law ( grunnlov ). Christie was there, like Peter Motzfeldt, who advocated a constitutional orientation to the American- French model.

Christie was representative of Bergen in the Imperial Assembly of Eidsvoll on May 17, 1814. He was chairman of the committee during the negotiations with Sweden and contributes a major portion of the fact that Norway has retained its independence in personal union with Sweden.

He was a member of the Storting in the years 1815 and 1818, where he was involved in the introduction of a stable constitutional practice. He is considered one of the founders of the Bergen Museum.

• Storting deputy
• Norwegian
• Born in 1778
• Died in 1849
• Man