Marcus Pløen Ingstad (18 August 1837 – 24 September 1918) was a Norwegian jurist and educator. He was a legal historian and scholar who was the author of several books on

Roman law Roman law is the law, legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the ''Corpus Juris Civilis'' (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor J ...

. He served as a Professor of Jurisprudence and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the

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between 1870 and 1918.

Biography

Ingstad was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Fredrik Emil Ingstad (1808–77) and Louise Platou (1812–43). He attended the

Royal Frederick University The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

(now University of Oslo): cand.philos. (1856),

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(1861) and

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(1877). Ingstad was a Professor of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law of the Royal Frederick University (1870–1918) and also served as Dean of the Faculty of Law. He was ordained an assessor in the

Supreme Court of Norway The Supreme Court of Norway (Norwegian Bokmål: ''(Norges) Høyesterett''; Norwegian Nynorsk: ''(Noregs) Høgsterett''; lit. ‘Highest Court’) was established in 1815 on the basis of section 88 in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway, whi ...

(1880 and 1891). He was also a

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and historian as well as the author of several books on

Personal life

He was married to Dorothea Greve from 1839 to 1918. They were the grandparents of Norwegian explorer Helge Marcus Ingstad.

Selected works

* ''Forelæsninger over Den romerske arveret'' (1916) * ''Forelæsninger over romersk familieret'' (1917) *''Den romerske privatrets almindelige del'' (1924)

References

External links

Marcus Pløen Ingstad at Oslo Museum
1837 births 1918 deaths University of Oslo alumni Uppsala University alumni Scholars of Roman law Legal historians Law school deans Academics of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{Norway-historian-stub