Karelius August Arntzen (10 November 1802 – 1876) was a Norwegian jurist, civil servant and politician. He was born in Copenhagen,''Personalhistorie for Trondhjems by og omegn i et tidsrum af circa 1½ aarhundrede''
by Chr. Thaulow. Hosted by Trondheim public library. where his father

Andreas Arntzen Andreas Arntzen (18 February 1777 – 14 December 1837) was a Norwegian politician. He was born in Grue, and graduated as cand.jur. in Copenhagen in 1802. He then worked as an attorney, chief of police of Christiania, Supreme Court judge an ...

took his jurist education. He became a student at the University of Copenhagen in 1820. In 1824 he was employed as copyist in the Ministry of Justice. In 1827, he graduated

cand.jur. Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries. ...

and took his law degree. In 1831 he became bureau chief and in 1833 expedition secretary. He was later County Governor of Søndre Trondhjems Amt (now

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...

) from 1840 to 1857 and of ''Christiania'' ( Oslo) from 1857 to 1874. He was appointed acting councillor of state in the interim government which was founded during the illness of King Carl XV during August 1861, but did not actually assume office. He died in 1876.

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1802 births 1876 deaths County governors of Norway 19th-century Norwegian people 19th-century Norwegian politicians University of Copenhagen alumni 19th-century Norwegian lawyers {{Norway-politician-1800s-stub