Jacob Neumann (13 July 1772 – 25 January 1848) was a Norwegian bishop.

Personal life

He was born in Strømsø as a son of Hans Neumann (1745–1789) and Annechen Johanne Blom (1754–1773), and a grandson of Jakob Hansen Neumann. He was also a first cousin of Gustav Peter Blom and

Gustava Kielland Susanne Sophie Catharina Gustava Kielland (née Blom, 6 March 1800 – 28 February 1889) was a Norwegian author and missionary pioneer. Biography She was born in Kongsberg as a daughter of customs officer Gustavus Blom and his wife Karen Petr ...

and a second cousin of Christian Blom. In February 1800 in Copenhagen, he married pharmacist's daughter Justine Marie Agnete Bruun (1780–1838). They had the grandchildren

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, Jakob and

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and

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Career

He studied under Christian Kølle at

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from 1781 to 1785 and in Elsinore from 1785 to 1787, before enrolling at the

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, where he graduated in 1796 with the

cand.theol. Candidatus theologiæ (male), Candidata theologiæ (female), abbreviated cand. theol. is an academic degree with a long tradition, awarded after a six-year higher education in theology in Iceland, Denmark, and Norway. In Norway, the title has re ...

degree. He took the dr.philos. degree in

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in 1799 on the thesis ''Historia primatus Lundensis''. He worked as a private tutor until 1799, when he became

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. In 1805 he was promoted to

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. He continued writing, being one of the last

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in Norway. In 1811 he published ''Doctor M. Luthers lille Katechismus'', a version of

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. He was elected to the first session of the

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in 1814, representing Agershus Amt. In 1819 he became

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in 1819. In 1822 he was promoted to bishop of the

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. He was a member of '' Det nyttige Selskab'' in

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, and was a co-founder of Bergens Sparebank in 1823 and

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in 1825. He also served as deputy representative to Parliament in 1824. He was decorated with the

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in 1811 and the

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in 1815. He died in January 1848 in Bergen.

References

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