Iver Erikssøn Leganger (February 26, 1629– April 2, 1702) was a Norwegian priest and author. He was born at

Leikanger Leikanger () is a former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It was located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center was the village of Hermansverk, which also was th ...

Sogn og Fjordane Sogn og Fjordane (; literally "Parish and the Fjords") was a Counties of Norway, county in western Norway, from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsda ...

, Norway and adopted the Danish spelling "Leganger" as a surname. He was the son of provost Erik Iverssøn Nordal (1591–1658) and Karen Nilsdatter Arctander Werner (1595–1634). He attended the

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. He took his baccalaureate at the

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in 1648. He subsequently had studied in Germany and the Netherlands. Leganger first worked during 1656 as personnel chaplain for his father in Leikanger. Leganger was priest in

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from 1657 and dean in

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from 1668. He became the owner of several farms in Vik and elsewhere in

. Leganger was also a historical and topographical author. Leganger had traveled in his youth extensively in

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and the

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. Many of his

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surveys and maps are deposited at the library of the

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. He is particularly known for his historical and topographical descriptions of Sogn written largely in Latin, ''Circa brevissimam Sogniæ chorographiam''. Leganger also compiled a theological dissertation in Latin, ''Simplicissima Textus Prophetici expositio, Esaiæ LV. 6–7'' (1692), regarding the writings of the prophet

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. At the

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there is a plaque (with text in Latin) memorializing Leganger on a church wall.

Personal life

He was married twice. In 1659, he married Maren Berthelsdatter Glad (1614–1665). In 1667, after the death of his first wife, he married Anna Pedersdatter Finde (1645–1728). His descendants included the artist

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, historian

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, writer

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and military officer

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References

1629 births 1702 deaths People from Leikanger People educated at the Bergen Cathedral School University of Copenhagen alumni 17th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy Norwegian non-fiction writers {{Norway-reli-bio-stub