Hjalmar Løken (31 October 1852 – 1932) was a Norwegian jurist and newspaper editor.

Personal life

Hjalmar Løken was born in

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as the son of cand.jur. Edvard Martin Løchen and his wife Anne Elisabeth Grøtting. He was a brother of painter and actor Kalle Løchen, County Governor of Hedmark Thorvald Løchen, politician and

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Einar Løchen, and philosopher

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. He married his cousine, writer and feminist Olaug Løken in 1881.

Professional career

Løken graduated as cand.jur. in 1876. He was a lawyer in Christiania from 1879, and a lawyer of the

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from 1883. He was editor-in-chief for the Trondheim newspaper '' Dagsposten'' from 1885 to 1890, and of '' Norske Intelligenssedler'' from 1890 to 1918.

References

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