Johan Christian Viggo Ullmann (21 December 1848 – 30 August 1910) was a Norwegian

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and politician with Venstre, the Norwegian

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. He was the son of the author Vilhelmine Ullmann, brother of the feminist Ragna Nielsen and the great grandfather of actress

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. Norway's first social doctor was his grandchild, also named Viggo Ullmann (Lillehammer, 1920–).

Career as a teacher

From 1870 he studied philology at the University of Christiania and was cand.philol. 1872. He received his

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in 1875, after which he worked as a teacher at the

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s Skulestad, Østre Moland, Landvik, Bratsberg, Drangedal, Gjerpen and Vinje. At the liberal Folk High School in Seljord (''Seljord Folkehøgskule''), he worked for a more vocational approach to the study. In this period, he was also chairman of the publisher Det Norske Samlaget, as well as editor for the newspaper '' Varden''. His

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was influenced by the ideas of N. F. S. Grundtvig, where

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and learning was seen as a voluntary act, and obligatory exams were replaced by voluntary self-evaluation. He was also a spokesman of the

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of American economist

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Political career

He was the leader of the party Venstre (1893–1894 and 1898–1900), Member of Parliament for Bratsberg 1898–1900, Venstre's parliamentary leader 1893–1894 and President of the Storting 1892–94, 1897 and 1898–1900. In 1884 he was a co-founder of the

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. He helped The Association for Women's Suffrage (led by his sister, Ragna Nielsen) to write a suggestion for a change of the constitution, something which brought him into conflict with certain religious societies. Together with Prime Minister Wollert Konow, he was central in and was later (in 1890) behind the establishment of and The Peace Letter to King

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. Ullman was First Deputy Member of the

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(7 August 1897 – 5 June 1900). From 1902 until he died, he was county governor of Bratsberg amt (now Telemark).

Selected works

Ullman also published several books: * ''Plutarks levnetsbeskrivelser'' ( Plutarch's Lives), 2 volumes, 1876–1877, translation * ''Ammianus Marcellinus’s 25 aar av Roms historie'' (

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’ 25 years of Roman history), 3 volumes, 1877–1881, translation * ''Haandbok i verdenshistorien'' (Handbook to world history), 4 volumes, 1899–1905.

References

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External links

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