Jens Boalth (8 March 1725 – 5 December 1780) was a Norwegian educator. He was

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at the

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and a driving force behind cultural development in Bergen, Norway. He was born in Christiania (now Oslo, Norway). He was the son of Larsen Boalth (1697–1744 and Anne Cathrine Pedersdatter Kolding (1695–1765). He grew up in a wealthy merchant family and attended Christiania Cathedral School. In 1742, he entered the

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, where he relieved his theological degree in 1745 and took a

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in 1750. From 1756, he was

at the

. In total, he was an educator at the school for more than 20 years. He co-founded the

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in 1765 and the Philharmonic Drawing School in 1772. In 1774, he founded

Det nyttige Selskab ''Det nyttige Selskab'' (lit. "The Serviceable Society") is a non-profit organization in Bergen, Norway. History Det nyttige Selskab was founded in Bergen in 1774 by Jens Boalth (1725-1780), who was the principal at Bergen Cathedral School from ...

, a service society which focused on the well being of the general population.

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1725 births 1780 deaths Schoolteachers from Bergen Heads of schools in Norway People educated at Oslo Cathedral School University of Copenhagen alumni {{Norway-academic-bio-stub