Christian Henrik Nicolai Mejdell (21 April 1822 – 1899) was a Norwegian mining engineer. He was born in

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. He took his mining examination in 1843. He worked as manager of Selbu Copper Works and Kongsberg Silver Works, and from 1865 he was the mine superintendent ( no, bergmester) for all of South-Eastern Norway. He was also an editor-in-chief of the newspaper '' Christiania-Posten'', and issued books. He was a nephew of officer Jacob Gerhard Meydell, brother of forester

Thorvald Mejdell Thorvald Mejdell (21 September 1824 – 28 October 1908) was a Norwegian forester. He was born in Ringsaker as a son of colonel Gløer Gløersen Mejdell (1782–1827) and Thorine Krog. He was a nephew of officer Jacob Gerhard Meydell and brother ...

and the father of jurist and writer Glør Thorvald Mejdell. Through his sister Cecilie Marie Mejdell he was a brother-in-law of

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and an uncle of

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and

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; and also an uncle of Thora Cathrine Sinding who married his son Glør.

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1822 births 1899 deaths People from Hedmarken Norwegian mining engineers Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian non-fiction writers 19th-century journalists Male journalists 19th-century Norwegian writers 19th-century Norwegian male writers {{Norway-writer-stub