Frederik Christian Stoud Platou (17 February 1811 – 23 June 1891) was a

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legal scholar, Supreme Court justice, district stipendiary magistrate and politician.

Personal life

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

Ludvig Stoud Platou Ludvig Stoud Platou (28 March 1778 – 30 November 1833) was a Danish-Norwegian educator, historical and geographical writer, politician and State Secretary. Personal life He was born in Slagelse, Denmark as a son of curate Friderich Christian P ...

(1749–1815) and his wife Karen Lumholtz (1785–1833). He was a maternal grandson of

Nicolai Lumholtz Nicolai Lumholtz (19 September 1729 – 20 June 1819) was a Danish born, Norwegian clergyman. He served as acting bishop of the Diocese of Christiania. Biography He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark as a son of controller Niels Lumholtz (1688� ...

and brother of

Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou (26 June 1809 – 11 September 1888) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician. Personal life He was born in Oslo, Christiania as a son of educator, professor, politician and State Secretary Ludvig Stoud Platou (1749 ...

, and through the latter an uncle of Valborg Platou and Lars Hannibal Sommerfeldt Stoud Platou. He was a granduncle of

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. In July 1844 in

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he married the vicar's daughter, Constance Henriette Reiersen (1820–1893). They had a son,

Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou (16 July 1845 – 17 January 1929) was a Norwegian jurist. After fourteen years as an assessor in Oslo City Court from 1876 to 1890, he was a professor at the Royal Frederick University from 1890 to 1920. Personal life H ...

, and their daughter Mimi married Lars Hannibal Sommerfeldt Stoud Platou.

Career

He graduated from the university with the

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degree in 1839. In 1842 he started holding lectures at the university, and in the same year, when

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became a

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Assessor, Platou was hired as a lecturer of jurisprudence from June 1843. In 1849 he was promoted to professor, although there was a vote of dissent in the government—some wanted Frans Christian Faye to advance from lecturer to professor of medicine instead. The dissent went to the

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in 1851, but no change was made. He published little; only one noteworthy book, ''Om Besiddelse efter norsk Ret'' ("On Possession after Norwegian Law") in 1863. He also participated in ''ad hoc'' law commissions. In 1877 he received an honorary degree at

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. From 1862 to 1864 he was a Supreme Court Assessor, but after 1864 he was only extraordinary Assessor in some cases at the same time as being district stipendiary magistrate in Nes District Court. His son Oscar was deputy judge here from 1870 to 1871. Platou was acting

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from 1873 to 1874, and participated as

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in three interim governments: first during King Oscar II's travel in Germany from May to June 1875; then during King Oscar II's travel in Russia in July 1875; then during the

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's and the

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's travel in Russia in September 1881.

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was also a part of the first two of these interim governments. In 1883–1884 Platou was an acting Supreme Court Assessor, and was a part of the

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case against

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. Together with the other assessors he voted against the impeachment of Selmer and the entire cabinet, and as such he lost the case. After 1884 he worked in the high court of the Diocese of Kristiania, where he was transferred because his hearing was deteriorating. He died in June 1891 in Kristiania.

References

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