Paul Ivar Paulsen (13 February 1868 – 12 October 1938) was a Norwegian lawyer and civil servant. He took the

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degree in 1892. He was hired as an assistant secretary in the

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in 1899 and was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1908. In 1913, he became district stipendiary magistrate in Aker District Court, and in 1918 he became a

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. From 1921 to 1922, he was the

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. He also chaired Kristiania school board from 1911 to 1912, and worked with grading ("censoring") law exams at the

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. He died in October 1938 and was buried at

Vår Frelsers gravlund The Cemetery of Our Saviour () is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemi ...

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