Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou (26 June 1809 – 11 September 1888) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician.

Personal life

He was born in Christiania as a son of educator, professor, politician and State Secretary

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(1749–1815) and his wife Karen Lumholtz (1785–1833). He was a maternal grandson of Nicolai Lumholtz and brother of Frederik Christian Stoud Platou, and through the latter an uncle of

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. In August 1838 in Undrumsdal he married Christence Dorothea Plade Nielsen (1817–1889). They had the son

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and the daughter

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. A third son Carl Ludvig named his son Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou, Jr.

Career

He took his examen artium in 1827 and graduated from the university with the

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degree in 1832. He was hired as a clerk in the

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in 1833, the same year his father died. He was later promoted, but started as an auditor in

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in 1844. From 1846 to 1853 he was an

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in Bergen, but in 1853 he returned to Christianssand as burgomaster. He was elected to the

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, representing his city in 1857–58. From 1860 to his death he was the burgomaster of Bergen. He was also the city's deputy mayor in 1853. Platou laid down a sizeable amount of work for Bergen city. He was a board member of Bergen Museum from 1850 to 1853 and then from 1864, became a board member of ''

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'' from 1871 (praeses from 1875 to 1876), helped found Bergen Public Library in 1872 and chaired the local railway committee from 1874. He was honored locally with a bust in the city hall in 1885, and a street at Nygårdshøyden being named for him in 1891. He was honored nationally with the Commander Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1885. He was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1849, and wrote extensively. He reissued his father's textbook ''Udtog af Geographien for Begyndere'' seven times, the last in 1862. He died on 11 September 1888 in Bergen.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Platou, Carl Nicolai Stoud 1809 births 1888 deaths Carl Nicolai Stoud Writers from Oslo Norwegian people of Danish descent Norwegian civil servants Members of the Storting Politicians from Kristiansand Politicians from Bergen Norwegian non-fiction writers Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters 19th-century Norwegian writers