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Christian Zetlitz Bretteville (17 November 1800 – 24 February 1871) was a Norwegian politician who served as Prime Minister 1858–1859 and in 1861 and who held several other cabinet positions between 1850 and 1871. He was also mayor of Christiania.
Christian Zetlitz Bretteville
'' Norsk biografisk leksikon''
Christian Zetlitz Bretteville (17 November 1800 – 24 February 1871) was a Norwegian politician who served as Prime Minister 1858–1859 and in 1861 and who held several other cabinet positions between 1850 and 1871. He was also mayor of Christiania.
Political career
He was Minister of Finance 1850-1852 and 1853–1854,Minister of the Interior
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in six periods 1854–1871, as well as head of the Ministry of Auditing 1855-1856, a member of the Councils and interim Councils of State Division in Stockholm
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in several periods from 1852–1866, and as Prime Minister 1858–1859 and in 1861.
He was mayor of Christiania in 1841.
Family
He belonged to the FrenchNorman
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Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
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noble family le Normand de Bretteville, and was the son of tax collector in Paris and Brest Charles Eugene le Normand de Bretteville and Mette Christina Zetlitz. His grandfather, General and Marquis Louis Claude le Normand de Bretteville (1744–1835) fled the French Revolution and was naturalized as a Dano-Norwegian nobleman in 1804. His daughter Blanca Bretteville was married to the judge Johann Ludwig Wegner, a son of the industrialist Benjamin Wegner.'' Norsk biografisk leksikon''
References
1800 births 1871 deaths Prime Ministers of Norway Government ministers of Norway Mayors of Oslo Place of birth missing Place of death missing 19th-century Norwegian politicians Ministers of Finance of Norway {{Norway-politician-1800s-stub