Jens Stub (3 March 1764 – 24 October 1819) was a Norwegian priest and politician. He was vicar on the island of

Veøya Veøya is an island in Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located at a junction of the three main branches of Romsdal Fjord between the island of Sekken and the mainland near the village of Nesjestranda. The island ...

and served as a representative at the

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in 1814.

Biography

He was the son of district stipendiary magistrate (''sorenskriver'') Johan Daniel Stub (1736–1802) and grandson of Lauritz Stub (1708–1774), both of whom served as judges in

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. He grew up in the parish of Eid in the county of Nordre Bergenhus, Norway. His brother was Gerhard Heiberg Stub (1781–1831), a merchant in Bergen. In August 1793 he married his cousin Gjertrud Helene Heiberg (1774–1852) at Talvik in Finnmark.Genealogy
/ref> Jens Stub was a priest by education. He earned his degree in theology (

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) in 1788. He was a

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priest at

Alta Church Alta Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the Bossekop area in the town of Alta. It is one of the churches for the Alta parish which is part of the Alta prosti (d ...

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

. He was vicar of

Veøy Church Veøy Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sølsnes. It is the main church for the ''Røvik og Veøy'' parish which is part of the Molde dom ...

Romsdalsfjord or is the ninth-longest fjord in Norway. The long fjord is located in the Romsdal district of Møre og Romsdal county. It flows through the municipalities of Molde, Haram, Vestnes, and Rauma. The deepest point in the fjord is just southwest ...

from 1801 until his death,Jens Stub
at NRK Sogn og Fjordane County Encyclopedia when he was succeeded by Johan Christopher Haar Daae. Stub was a member of the

Eidsvoll Manor Eidsvollsbygningen (Literally: ''The Eidsvoll building'') is a historic manor house located at Eidsvoll in Akershus county, Norway. The building is where the Constitution of Norway was signed on 17 May 1814. The estate is now owned by The State o ...

in 1814. He served as a representative of Romsdals Amt together with

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and

Elling Olsson Walbøe Elling Olsson Walbøe (26 May 1763 – 13 December 1831) was a Norwegian farmer, builder, and member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly. Walbøe was born at the Valbø farm in Ørskog parish in Romsdalen county, Norway. Later he bought th ...

. During negotiations at the National Assembly, he voted with the Union Party (''Unionspartiet'').Jens Stub
nbsp;— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) He died in a boating accident during 1819 at Tresfjord in

Romsdal Romsdal is a Districts of Norway, traditional district in the Norwegian county Møre og Romsdal, located between Nordmøre and Sunnmøre. The district of Romsdal traditional comprises the areas that are part of Aukra Municipality, Molde Municipal ...

county.

References

1764 births 1819 deaths People from Sogn og Fjordane Møre og Romsdal politicians Norwegian priest-politicians Fathers of the Constitution of Norway {{Norway-politician-1760s-stub