
Frederik Motzfeldt (2 November 1779 – 2 January 1848) was a Norwegian politician. He was a member of the
Norwegian Constituent Assembly
The Norwegian Constituent Assembly (in Norwegian ''Grunnlovsforsamlingen'', also known as ''Riksforsamlingen'') is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in Norway, that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised th ...
at
Eidsvoll
Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sundet.
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in 1814.
Motzfeldt was born at
Skaun
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in
Sør-Trøndelag
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,
Norway
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. He was raised in
Trondhjem
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
. He was the son of Major Jacob Motzfeldt (1744–1816) and Sophia Cathrine Mühlenphort (1751–1789). He was a cousin of
Peter Motzfeldt and
Carl Frederik Motzfeldt. He graduated as
cand.jur.
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in 1801.
He worked as both
stipendiary magistrate
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(''byfoged'') and district stipendiary magistrate (''sorenskriver'') at
Molde
Molde () is a town and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Pen ...
in
Romsdal
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, Norway.
[Frederik Motzfeldt](_blank)
— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) He was a member of the
Norwegian Constituent Assembly
The Norwegian Constituent Assembly (in Norwegian ''Grunnlovsforsamlingen'', also known as ''Riksforsamlingen'') is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in Norway, that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised th ...
in 1814, representing
Molde
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. He generally supported the position of the Independence Party
(''Selvstendighetspartiet'').
He left Molde later in 1814 to work as a
Supreme Court
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assessor
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* ''Assessor'' (fish), a genus of fishes
* Assessor (law), the assistant to a judge or magistrate
* Assessor (Oxford), a senior officer of the University of Oxford
* Assessor (property), an expert who calculates the value of pr ...
. In 1821 he was appointed
Auditor General of Norway
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, a post he held until 1827. He continued to work at the
Office of the Auditor General of Norway to 1845.
He was elected to the
Norwegian Parliament
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in 1830, representing the constituency of
Christiania. He had been a deputy representative in 1827.
References
1779 births
1848 deaths
Fathers of the Constitution of Norway
Members of the Storting
Møre og Romsdal politicians
Politicians from Oslo
Auditors general of Norway
Norwegian jurists
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