Nils Astrup (11 November 1778 – 26 September 1835) was a Norwegian politician. He was elected to the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

in 1820, representing the constituency of ''Nedenæs og Raabygdelagets Amt''. He worked as a

vogt During the Middle Ages, an (sometimes given as modern English: advocate; German: ; French: ) was an office-holder who was legally delegated to perform some of the secular responsibilities of a major feudal lord, or for an institution such as ...

there. He served only one term.Nils Astrup
— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) He was born in

Ørskog Ørskog is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It was part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre was the village of Sjøholt. The other main village was Vaksvika, about south of Sjøholt. The European Rou ...

.Genealogy
/ref> His father had immigrated from Slesvig.Mayors of Bolsøy
/ref> In 1816 in Molde he married Ingeborg Ross Müller (1788–1848) from

Trondhjem Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

. The couple had several children. Nils Astrup died in 1835 in Christiania. He was the great-grandfather of painter

Nikolai Astrup Nikolai Astrup () (30 August 1880 – 21 January 1928) was a Norwegian modernist painter. Astrup was a distinctive, innovative artist noted principally for his intense use of color depicting the lush landscapes of Vestlandet featuring the trad ...

, and also related to politician Hans Rasmus Astrup.

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1778 births 1835 deaths Members of the Storting Møre og Romsdal politicians Norwegian people of German descent People from Ørskog {{Norway-politician-1770s-stub