Ulrik Frederik Lange Ulrik Frederik Lange (28 July 1808 – 8 September 1878) was a Norwegian teacher and politician.Ulrik Frederik Lange
— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)

Background

Lange was born at

Jevnaker Jevnaker is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Jevnaker with a population of 4,302. The parish of ''Jævnaker'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see form ...

Oppland Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The ...

, Norway. He was the son of Johan Jørgen Lange (1754-1814) and Dorothea Helena Larsen (1771-1824).Ulrik Frederik Lange genealogy
/ref> He was the younger brother of the politicians Hans Nicolai Lange and Otto Vincent Lange, brother-in-law of Nils Landmark and Even Hanssen and uncle of Johan Jørgen Lange Hanssen. He was a student at

Oslo Cathedral School Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian language, Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole (''Oslo Cathedral School'') and more commonly as "Katta",

(1826) and graduated with a degree in theology (1832).

Career

Lange was a teacher and school administrator. He worked as a headmaster in

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. From 1849 to 1854, he was the teacher at Lillehammer and principal at the time of his death in 1878. He was elected to the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( ; ) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional represe ...

in 1842 and 1845, He was then elected three more times, in 1854, 1857 and 1859, from the Lillehammer og Hamar constituency where he worked as a school principal. Lange sat as mayor in

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munici ...

in 1853, 1855 and 1861 to 1863. He was also director of Lillehammer ''

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'' (savings bank) from 1855 to 1861.

Personal life

In March 1833, he married Stine Charlotte Cathrine Blix (1808-1890). They had seven children. He died in 1878 in Lillehammer.

References

1808 births 1878 deaths Politicians from Tromsø Oppland politicians People from Lillehammer Norwegian educators People from Jevnaker Members of the Storting 1859–1861 Members of the Storting 1857–1858 Members of the Storting 1854–1856 Members of the Storting 1845–1847 Members of the Storting 1842–1844 {{Norway-politician-1800s-stub