Jens Stub (3 March 1764 – 24 October 1819) was a
Norwegian
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priest and politician. He was vicar on the island of
Veøya and served as a representative at the
Norwegian Constitutional Assembly
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at
Eidsvoll
Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sundet.
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in 1814.
Biography
He was the son of district stipendiary magistrate (''sorenskriver'') Johan Daniel Stub (1736–1802) and grandson of Lauritz Stub (1708-1774), both of whom served as judges in
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...
. He grew up in the parish of
Eid in the county of
Sogn og Fjordane
Sogn og Fjordane (; English: "Sogn and Fjordane") was, up to 1 January 2020, a county in western Norway, when it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland, the cou ...
, Norway. His brother was Gerhard Heiberg Stub (1781-1831), a merchant in Bergen. In August 1793 he married his cousin Gjertrud Helene Heiberg (1774–1852) at
Talvik in Finnmark.
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Jens Stub was a priest by education. He earned his degree in theology ( Cand.theol.) in 1788. He was a Church of Norway priest at Alta-Talvik in Finnmark
Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024.
On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...
. He was vicar of the parish of Veøy in Romsdalsfjord from 1801 until his death,[Jens Stub]
at NRK Sogn og Fjordane County Encyclopedia when he was succeeded by Johan Christopher Haar Daae.
Stub was a member of the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly
The Norwegian Constituent Assembly (in Norwegian ''Grunnlovsforsamlingen'', also known as ''Riksforsamlingen'') is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in Norway, that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised th ...
at Eidsvoll
Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sundet.
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in 1814. He served as a representative of Romsdals Amt together with Hilmar Meincke Krohg and Elling Olsson Walbøe
Elling Olsson Walbøe (26 May 1763 – 13 December 1831) was a Norwegian farmer, builder, and member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
Walbøe was born at the Valbø farm of Ørskog parish in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Later he bought th ...
. During negotiations at the National Assembly, he voted with the Union Party (''Unionspartiet'').
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He died in a boating accident during 1819 at Tresfjord in Møre og Romsdal.
References
1764 births
1819 deaths
People from Sogn og Fjordane
Møre og Romsdal politicians
Norwegian priest-politicians
Fathers of the Constitution of Norway
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