Ebbe Carsten Hornemann Hertzberg (11 April 1847 – 2 October 1912) was a Norwegian professor and social economist. He was also a

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and published several works in that field.

Biography

Hertzberg was born at

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, Norway. He was the son of Johan Christian Linde Hertzberg (1816–84) and Inger Horneman (1820–95). He attended the

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(now University of Oslo). In 1868, he was awarded the Crown Prince's gold medal (''Kronprinsens gullmedalje'') for a thesis regarding changes in Norwegian judicial institutions. He graduated as

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in 1870. He earned a travel scholarship and studied at

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from 1870. From 1872 to 1873, he studied under legal historian Konrad Maurer at the

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. He was appointed professor of statistics and economics at the

in 1877. He was a short-time government minister during April-June 1884 as a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm. In 1886, Hertzberg withdrew from public life and moved away from

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for a decade. Officially, this was motivated by a desire to focus on his research, but in reality he been pushed to resign by the university after admitting to being homosexual. During his exile in

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and Stockholm, he completed his greatest work, a

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of historic Norwegian legal terms, ''Glossarium til Norges gamle love''. In 1896, he returned to

where in 1903 he became director of Norges Hypotekbank and in 1906 he was appointed as an administrator in the National Archives. In 1901, he was awarded Knight 1st Class and in 1907 was decorated Commander of the

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Selected works

*''Grundtrækkene i den ældste norske proces'' (1874) *''Om kreditens begreb og væsen'' (1877) *''Glossarium til Norges gamle love'' (1895)

References

Bibliography

* ''Glossarium zu Norges gamle Love indtil 1387''. Volltextversion auf CD-ROM eingeleitet u. mit e. Bibliographie versehen von Hans Fix. Saarbrücken: AQ-Verlag 2013.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hertzberg, Ebbe 1847 births 1912 deaths People from Holmestrand University of Oslo alumni Uppsala University alumni 19th-century Norwegian historians Norwegian economists Norwegian educators Directors-General of the National Archives of Norway 19th-century Norwegian politicians University of Oslo faculty Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian expatriates in Germany LGBT politicians from Norway LGBT writers from Norway