Christopher Knudsen (4 October 1843 – 28 July 1915) was a Norwegian priest and politician for the
Conservative Party
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. He was Minister of Education and Church Affairs from 1905 to 1906.
Knudsen was born in
Drammen as a son of railroad worker Knud Larssen (1814–66) and Marie A. Christophersen Aaserud (1812–1890). He was married twice; first from February 1869 to Marie Charlotte Andrea Hermanstorff (1849–1873), then from September 1874 to Ida Regine Lohne (1855–1949).
He was an uncle of politician
Knud Christian Knudsen
Knud Christian Knudsen (18 January 1887 – 24 May 1969) was a Norwegian merchant and politician for the Conservative Party.
He was born in Drammen; the son of wholesaler August Martinius Knudsen (1858–1922) and Anne Margrethe Høstad (1858� ...
.
He
finished
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his secondary education in 1861,
[ graduated with the ]cand.theol.
Candidatus theologiæ (male), Candidata theologiæ (female), abbreviated cand. theol. is an academic degree with a long tradition, awarded after a six-year higher education in theology in Iceland, Denmark, and Norway. In Norway, the title has re ...
degree in 1867, and in 1879 he became vicar
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in the newly established parish of Nedre Eiker
Nedre Eiker was a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Buskerud Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Eiker. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mjøndal ...
. When Nedre Eiker became its own municipality in 1885, he sat in the municipal council
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and on the school board and was elected mayor. He left Nedre Eiker in 1886, and became a curate
A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...
in Drammen. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway
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from that city in 1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
and 1897
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...
. He was then elected for a third term in 1900
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from the constituency Tønsberg, where he had been appointed vicar.
On 11 March 1905, when Michelsen's Cabinet
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assumed office, Knudsen was appointed Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs. This cabinet oversaw the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905
The dissolution of the union ( nb, unionsoppløsningen; nn, unionsoppløysinga; Landsmål: ''unionsuppløysingi''; sv, unionsupplösningen) between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden under the House of Bernadotte, was set in motion by a resolut ...
. Knudsen left the cabinet on 26 January 1906.[
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References
1843 births
1915 deaths
Politicians from Drammen
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian schoolteachers
Norwegian priest-politicians
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Mayors of places in Buskerud
Ministers of Education of Norway
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