Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen (19 November 1744 - 13 February 1802) was a Norwegian-Danish jurist who served as Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Denmark
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(Da. ''Højesteret'', Nor. ''Høyesterett'').
Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen was born at
Sørum
Sørum was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Sørumsand. Sørum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see ...
in
Akershus
Akershus () is a traditional region and current electoral district in Norway, with Oslo as its main city and traditional capital. It is named after the Akershus Fortress in Oslo. From the middle ages to 1919, Akershus was a fief and main county ...
, Norway. He was raised in the traditional region of
Romerike
Romerike is a traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. It consists of the Viken municipalities Lillestrøm, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Rælingen and Aurskog-Høland in the southern end (Nedre Romerike) ...
. His parents were Colbjørn Colbjørnsen Jacobsen (1714-1761) and Anna Dorothea Røring (1710-1772). Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, along with his brothers, Edvard Røring Colbjørnsen (1751–1792),
Christian Colbjørnsen attended the
Christiania Cathedral School.
He studied law at the
University of Copenhagen
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. Subsequently, he served as a professor of law at the University of Copenhagen and later as extraordinary assessor in the Supreme Court. He served as the chief justice from 1799 until his death in 1802. His brother,
Christian Colbjørnsen was chief justice of Denmark-Norway from 1804 until 1814.
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1744 births
1802 deaths
People from Akershus
People educated at Oslo Cathedral School
University of Copenhagen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
19th-century Norwegian people
Chief justices of Denmark–Norway
18th-century Danish judges
Norwegian jurists
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