Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne (11 November 1851 – 24 April 1930) was a

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jurist, Professor of Jurisprudence at

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from 1887, and the university's rector 1912–1918.

Personal life

He was born in Christiania as the son of

Vilhelm Ludvig Herman von Munthe af Morgenstierne Vilhelm Ludvig Herman von Munthe af Morgenstierne (2 October 1814 – 30 December 1888) was a Norwegian politician, part of an old noble family. He was born in Christiania as the son of Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne and his wife Cat ...

and his wife Fredrikke Nicoline Wilhelmine N. Sibbern, and was a member of the Munthe af Morgenstierne family, which was ennobled in 1755 by the Dano-Norwegian king.Genealogy
His maternal grandfather was

Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern (19 September 1779 – 1 January 1853) was a Norwegian government minister and representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly. Biography Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern was born on the Værne Kloster ...

, his paternal grandfather was

Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, Sr. Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne (27 September 1774 – 3 June 1835) was a Denmark, Danish-Norway, Norwegian jurist who served as the first Office of the Attorney General of Norway, Attorney General of Norway from 1816 to 1820. He belon ...

, and through his aunt Augusta Julie Georgine he was the nephew of Prime Minister

Frederik Stang Frederik Stang (4 March 1808 – 8 June 1884) was a Norwegian lawyer, public servant, and politician who served as Norway's 1st prime minister in Christiana. Stang was born on the Nordre Rostad farm at Stokke in Vestfold, Norway. He was the so ...

. His brother Wilhelm Herman Ludvig became a

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. Bredo Henrik married Berthe Schjelderup, sister of businessman

Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup (7 October 1859 – 27 September 1931) was a Norwegian businessperson. Personal life He was born in Christiania as the son of Thorleif Schjelderup and Fredrikke Marie Caspary.Gunnar Gunnar is a male first name of Nordic origin (''Gunnarr'' in Old Norse). The name Gunnar means fighter, soldier, and attacker, but mostly is referred to by the Viking saying which means Brave and Bold warrior (''gunnr'' "war" and ''arr'' "warrior ...

and

Ferdinand Schjelderup Ferdinand Schjelderup (8 March 1886 – 30 July 1955) was a Norwegian mountaineer, Supreme Court Justice and resistance member during the German occupation of Norway. Personal life He was born in Kristiania as the son of Thorleif Frederik Schj ...

. The couple had three sons and one daughter. His son Otto Christofer (1884–1975) became an attorney, Wilhelm Thorleif (1887–1963) became the Ambassador of Norway to the United States of America earning the position of seniority as Dean of the Diplomatic Corps (married to Marjorie Alder of Winsor, Canada) and Georg Valentin (1892–1978) became a noted Indo-Iranist who undertook pioneering studies in Pashto and associated dialects, Balochi, Kashmiri and the Dardic languages.

Career

Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne made a career as a jurist. He took the dr.juris degree in 1887, and became acting professor at the University of Kristiania the same year. In 1889 the position was made permanent. His principal work was ''Lærebog i den norske statsforfatningsret'', published in 1900. He later became chairman of the ''Collegium academicum'' at the University of Kristiania. A personal friend of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, in 1905 Morgenstierne was reluctant to acknowledge the

dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 The dissolution of the union ( nb, unionsoppløsningen; nn, unionsoppløysinga; Landsmål: ''unionsuppløysingi''; sv, unionsupplösningen) between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden under the House of Bernadotte, was set in motion by a resolut ...

on behalf of the university, but soon bowed to the pressure from the rest of the collegium. From 1912 to 1918 he was rector of the

Royal Frederick University The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

. He was also a noted numismatician. He died in 1930 in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Munthe af Morgenstierne, Bredo Henrik von 1851 births 1930 deaths Norwegian jurists Academics of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo Rectors of the University of Oslo Norwegian numismatists