Tellef Dahll Schweigaard

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Tellef Dahll Schweigaard (7 August 1806 – 27 May 1886) was a Norwegian politician.

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Personal life

Schweigaard was born in Kragerø as the oldest son and second child of merchant Jørgen Fredrich Schweigaard (1771–1818) and his wife Johanne Marie Dahll (1785–1818). [1] His paternal grandfather had immigrated to Norway from Holstein. [2] He had one older sister and two younger brothers, one of whom was Anton Martin Schweigaard, a professor and ten-term member of the Norwegian Parliament. [1] As their parents died early, the four Schweigaard children were raised by relatives. [3]

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Schweigaard married fellow Kragerø citizen Marie Margrethe Rømer (1814–1889). The couple had four children. Their only daughter Marie Magdalene married jurist and politician Lars Anton Nicolai Larsen-Naur. Their son Johan Elias married a daughter of Niels Anker Stang, [1] became a senior physician, and was the grandfather of judge and politician Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer. [2] Through his brother Anton Martin, Tellef was also the uncle of later Prime Minister Christian Homann Schweigaard. [1]

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Career

Tellef Dahll Schweigaard worked as a wholesaler and timber merchant. [1]

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Kragerø in 1880, and served one term. [4] He had been mayor of Kragerø during the 1840s. [3]

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He died in 1886 in his hometown. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Genealogy Archived 2011-05-09 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. 1 2 "Schweigaard". Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. 2007.
  3. 1 2 A. M. Schweigaards oppvekst in Kragerø omkring 1814 Archived 2009-11-05 at the Wayback Machine .
  4. ↑ Tellef Dahll Schweigaard — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)


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