Frits Hansen (31 January 1841 – 8 June 1911) was a Norwegian educator, newspaper editor, biographer and politician. Hansen was born at

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, in

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, Norway. He was the son of Magistrate Frederik Christian Hansen (1799-1860) and Albine Elise Fougnerbakken (1801-1846). He earned his

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degree in 1865. Subsequently, he became a teacher at the

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. From 1872, Hansen taught at Sagatun Folk High School in

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. In 1881 Hansen was a teacher at a private middle school in

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. He was also editor of the Lillehammer newspaper ''Framgang''. In 1890, he wrote ''Edvard Storm, digteren fra Vaage'', a biography of the poet

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. In 1896 he moved to Christiania (now Oslo) and was editor of ''Eidsvold''. He was the chairman and founder of the regional centrist-conservative political party

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in the 1890s."Partihistorie: Centrum"
''Norsk samfunnsvitenskapelig datatjeneste''.

Personal life

In 1872, he married Ingeborg Marie Heftye (1852-1894). Her father

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was deputy representative to the

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and her brother was Norwegian Defense Minister

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. Her grandfather

Johannes Thomassen Heftye Johannes Thomassen Heftye (17 October 1792 – 2 November 1856) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician. He was the son of merchant Thomas Johannessen Heftye (1767–1827), an immigrant from Switzerland who founded the family company Thos. ...

had founded the Norwegian bank company, Thos. Joh. Heftye & Søn .

References

1841 births 1911 deaths People from Larvik Norwegian educators Norwegian biographers Norwegian male writers Male biographers Norwegian newspaper editors Political party founders Leaders of political parties in Norway {{Norway-politician-1840s-stub