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Peder Hjermann
Peder Hjermann (1 December 1754 – 25 December 1834) was a farmer and elected official who served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly. Peder (Per) Pedersson Hjermann was born in Lærdal in Sogn og Fjordane. He was youngest of seven siblings born to the sheriff in the village. In adulthood, he became a farmer at the Stødno farm at Hauge Church, Hauge parish in Lærdal. He also served as one of the Settlement Commissioners (''Forlikskommissær'') from the time the Conciliation Board (''Forliksråd '') was introduced in rural areas in 1797 until 1813. Peder Hjermann represented Nordre Bergenhus amt (now Sogn og Fjordane) at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814 together with Lars Johannes Irgens and Niels Nielsen (Norwegian politician), Niels Nielsen. All three representatives supported the independence party (''Selvstendighetspartiet''). References External links*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150813165401/http://eidsvol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peder Pederssønn Hjermann
Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek language, Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''wikt:petra, petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new name Jesus gave to apostle Saint Peter, Simon Bar-Jona. An Old English variant is Piers (name), Piers. In other languagess The following names can be interpreted as ''Peter'' in English language, English. * Afrikaans: Pieter, Petrus * Albanian language, Albanian: Pjetër, Prel * Amharic: ጴጥሮስ ("Ṗeṭros") * Arabic: بطرس (''Boutros''), بيار ("Pierre," mainly in Lebanon), بيتر ("Peter," exact transcription) * Aragonese language, Aragonese: Pietro, Pero, Piero, Pier * Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani: Pyotr * Armenian language, Armenian: Պետրոս (''Bedros'' in Western dialect, ''Petros'' in Eastern dialect) * Asturian language, Asturian: Pedru * Basque language, Basque: Peru, Pello (diminu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Constitutional Assembly
The Norwegian Constituent Assembly (in Norwegian ''Grunnlovsforsamlingen'', also known as ''Riksforsamlingen'') is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in Norway, that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised the dissolution of the union with Denmark. In Norway, it is often just referred to as ''Eidsvollsforsamlingen'', which means ''The Assembly of Eidsvoll''. The Assembly The election started in February 1814 in Christiania (now Oslo) in order to draft the Norwegian Constitution. The Assembly gathered at the manor house at Eidsvoll (''Eidsvollsbygningen'') and became known as "The Men of Eidsvoll" (''Eidsvollsmennene''). They first met on 10 April by Eidsvoll Church before the assembly formally opened the next day. It was intended to be composed of delegates from the entire country but the northernmost parts were not represented because of the long distances and lack of time. The presidents and vice presidents of the assembly were chosen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lærdal
Lærdal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the south side of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Lærdalsøyri. The old Filefjell Kongevegen road passes through Lærdal on its way to Valdres and later to Oslo. The municipality is the 71st largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway (with over half of this area consisting of mountains). Lærdal is the 274th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,117. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 4% over the previous 10-year period. The Lærdal river valley is long, running from Hemsedal (Høgeloft mountain) and the Filefjell mountains in the east to the Sognefjorden in the west. About half of the municipal residents live in the main village of Lærdalsøyri; the rest in the small villages in the surrounding valleys such as Borgund, Ljøsne, Tønjum, Erdal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sogn Og Fjordane
Sogn og Fjordane (; English: "Sogn and Fjordane") was, up to 1 January 2020, a county in western Norway, when it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland, the county administration was in the village of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality. The largest town in the county was Førde. Although Sogn og Fjordane has some industry, predominantly hydroelectricity and aluminium, it is predominantly an agricultural area. Sogn og Fjordane is also home to the Urnes Stave Church and the Nærøyfjord, which are both listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. The Western Norway University of Applied Sciences has campuses in Sogndal and Førde. Name The name ''Sogn og Fjordane'' was created in 1919; a literal translation is: ''Sogn and the fjords.'' The first element is the name of the region of Sogn, located in the southern part of the county. The last element is the plural definite form of ''fjord'', which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauge Church
Hauge Church ( no, Hauge kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Lærdalsøyri. It is the church for the Hauge parish which is part of the Sogn prosti ( deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The wooden church is painted white with brownish-yellow trim. It was built in a long church design in 1869 using plans drawn up by the architect Christian Christie. The church seats about 500 people. History The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1340, but it was not new that year. The first church was a wooden stave church that was probably built in the 13th century. Hauge Church is named after the Hauge farm where it was located. The farm sits about southeast of the village of Lærdalsøyri. Around the mid-1600s, the old stave church was torn down and replaced with a new timber-framed long church on the same site. This new building had a nave that measured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordre Bergenhus Amt
Sogn og Fjordane (; English: "Sogn and Fjordane") was, up to 1 January 2020, a county in western Norway, when it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland, the county administration was in the village of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality. The largest town in the county was Førde. Although Sogn og Fjordane has some industry, predominantly hydroelectricity and aluminium, it is predominantly an agricultural area. Sogn og Fjordane is also home to the Urnes Stave Church and the Nærøyfjord, which are both listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. The Western Norway University of Applied Sciences has campuses in Sogndal and Førde. Name The name ''Sogn og Fjordane'' was created in 1919; a literal translation is: ''Sogn and the fjords.'' The first element is the name of the region of Sogn, located in the southern part of the county. The last element is the plural definite form of ''fjord'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Constituent Assembly
The Norwegian Constituent Assembly (in Norwegian ''Grunnlovsforsamlingen'', also known as ''Riksforsamlingen'') is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in Norway, that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised the dissolution of the union with Denmark. In Norway, it is often just referred to as ''Eidsvollsforsamlingen'', which means ''The Assembly of Eidsvoll''. The Assembly The election started in February 1814 in Christiania (now Oslo) in order to draft the Norwegian Constitution. The Assembly gathered at the manor house at Eidsvoll (''Eidsvollsbygningen'') and became known as "The Men of Eidsvoll" (''Eidsvollsmennene''). They first met on 10 April by Eidsvoll Church before the assembly formally opened the next day. It was intended to be composed of delegates from the entire country but the northernmost parts were not represented because of the long distances and lack of time. The presidents and vice presidents of the assembly were chosen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidsvoll
Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sundet. General information Etymology The first element is the genitive case of the word ''eid'' (Old Norse: ''eið'') and the last element is ''voll'' (Old Norse: ''vǫllr'') which means "meadow" or "field". The meaning of the word ''eid'' in this case is "a road passing around a waterfall". People from the districts around the lake ( Mjøsa) who were sailing down the river Vorma, and people from Romerike sailing up the same river, both had to enter this area by passing the Sundfossen waterfall. Because of this, the site became an important meeting place long before the introduction of Christianity. Prior to 1918, the name was spelled "Eidsvold". The town of Eidsvold in Queensland, Australia and Eidsvold Township, Lyon County, Minnesota, United States still use th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Johannes Irgens
Lars Johannes Irgens (9 October 1775 – 22 April 1830) was a Norwegian jurist and public official. He served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly. Lars Johannes Irgens was born in Hof in Solør, Hedmark, Norway. He was the son of the parish priest of Hof. He was married to Christiane Louise Smith (1778-1858) with whom he had eight children including Norwegian government minister Nils Christian Irgens. He served as a lieutenant in Oppland Dragon Corps (''Oplandske Dragonregiment''). He graduated as cand.jur. in 1802, and was appointed district stipendiary magistrate (''sorenskriver'') at Sogn in Sogn og Fjordane the same year. He held this office until his death . He represented Nordre Bergenhus amt (now Sogn og Fjordane) at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814 together with Peder Hjermann Peder Hjermann (1 December 1754 – 25 December 1834) was a farmer and elected official who served as a representative at the Norwegian Constit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels Nielsen (Norwegian Politician)
Nicolai Niels Nielsen (3 March 1777 – 10 July 1854) was a Norwegian priest and politician. He was born in the village Balbro on Funen, Denmark. He took his Cand.theol. in Copenhagen in 1804, and initially worked as a teacher in Zealand. In 1807 he moved to Norway, becoming a priest in Vardøe in Finnmark. In 1810 he relocated to Holmedal in Sunnfjord.Nicolai Niels Nielsen at NRK Sogn og Fjordane County Encyclopedia He was a member of the at Eidsvoll in 1814. Together with [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' ( no, Store Norske Leksikon, abbreviated ''SNL''), is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with more than two million unique visitors per month. Paper editions 1978–2007 The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1907–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales for paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The fourth edition consisted of 16 volumes, a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1754 Births
Events January–March * January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word ''serendipity''. * February 22 – Expecting an attack by Portuguese-speaking militias in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, the indigenous Guarani people residing in the Misiones Orientales stage an attack on a small Brazilian Portuguese settlement on the Rio Pardo in what is now the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The attack by 300 Guarani soldiers from the missions at San Luis, San Lorenzo and San Juan Bautista is repelled with a loss of 30 Guarani and is the opening of the Guarani War * February 25 – Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion to fight British pirates that are reportedly disembarking on the coasts of Petén (modern-day Belize), and sacking the nearby towns. * March 16 – Ten days after the death of British Prime Minister Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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