Eiler Eilersen Hagerup (sometimes ''Eiler Hagerup d.y.'') was a Norwegian

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and

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. He served as a

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in the

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, first in the

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from 1774 until 1778 and then in the Diocese of Christianssand from 1778 until his death in 1789.

Personal life

He was born and raised in

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, on a coastal island in Nordmøre,

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on 11 December 1718. His parents were the trader Eiler Bertelsen Kongel and Laurentze Hansdatter Stub (1688-1751), who was the granddaughter of the priest

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. Eiler Hagerup was married first to Johanne Margrethe Smith from

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in 1752. She died during 1773 and then in 1777, Hagerup married Edvardine Magdalene Margrethe Christie. He took the surname "Hagerup" due to living with relatives of that name for nearly a decade. He is sometimes termed ''Eiler Hagerup den yngre'' or ''Eiler Hagerup d.y.'' The "den yngre" or "d.y." translates as "the younger", to distinguish him from his uncle, the Bishop

Eiler Hagerup d.e. Eiler Hansen Hagerup or Eiler Hagerup d.e. (25 November 1685 – 15 April 1743) was a Norwegian theologian and priest. He was the Bishop of the Diocese of Trondhjem from 1731 until his death in 1743. Personal life Eiler Hagerup was born on 2 ...

(with "d.e." or "den eldre", meaning "the elder").

Education and career

During 1730 (at the age of 12), he became a servant in the household of his uncle,

, the bishop of the

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. Here was also taught by his older cousin

Hans Hagerup Gyldenpalm Hans Hagerup or posthumously Hans Hagerup Gyldenpalm (27 October 1717 – 19 February 1781) was a Danish-born, Norwegian jurist and civil servant. Upon his death, the King granted him a title of nobility, thus changing his surname and that of ...

, who later became the Amtmann for Lister og Mandals amt. He spent time studying theology in Copenhagen and graduated with a

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in 1740. In 1743, he became the parish priest to Høyland parish on Jæren. In 1753, he became the dean of the

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. In 1756, he relocated to the city of

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to serve as the parish priest and he stayed there for a long time. He received his

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degree during 1760. In 1773, the King of Denmark-Norway appointed him to be the

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of the Danish

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. This, however, was short-lived; about a year later, he relocated to

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to become the Bishop of the

. He served in Bergen from 1774 until 1778 when he was appointed to be the Bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand, an assignment he had until his death on 27 March 1789.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hagerup, Eiler Eilersen 1718 births 1789 deaths Bishops of Agder og Telemark Bishops of Bjørgvin 18th-century Lutheran bishops