Hans Nicolai Lange (2 December 1795 – 24 December 1848) was a Norwegian priest and politician.

Biography

He was born at

Jevnaker Jevnaker is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Jevnaker with a population of 4,302. The parish of ''Jævnaker'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formann ...

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, Norway. He was the son of Johan Jørgen Lange (1754-1814) and Dorothea Helena Larsen (1771-1824). He father was a parish priest. Lange had five siblings. He was the elder brother of politicians Otto Vincent Lange and

Ulrik Frederik Lange Ulrik Frederik Lange Ulrik Frederik Lange (28 July 1808 – 8 September 1878) was a Norwegian teacher and politician.

, brother-in-law of Nils Landmark and Even Hanssen and uncle of Johan Jørgen Lange Hanssen. In 1825 he married Anna Rebekka Blix (1799-1874). They had no children.Hans Nicolai Lange genealogy
/ref> He was the first teacher at the Bragernes borgerskole in

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, working there from 1825–1846. He was elected to the

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in 1839. Hans Nicolai Lange
— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) He later became

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Bragernes Bragernes is one of the central areas of the city of Drammen in Viken, Norway. Location Bragernes is located on the northern side of the Drammen River (''Drammenselva'') and contains the famous town square Bragernes square (''Bragernes Torg''), ...

parish. Lange was appointed Mayor of

for two terms; first 1838–1839, then 1842–1848. Due to bad health, he traveled to

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to regain it, but died there on Christmas Eve 1848.

References

1795 births 1848 deaths Members of the Storting Mayors of places in Buskerud People from Drammen People from Jevnaker Norwegian priest-politicians {{Norway-politician-1790s-stub