Nils Engelhart (c.1668–1719) was a Norwegian
Lutheran priest.
Nils Engelhart was born in
Meldal in
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 ...
. His father Daniel Engelhart (ca. 1638-1733) was the
magistrate and later mining administer.
Løkken Mine was located in the municipality. He studied for the
ministry
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Government
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Religion
* Christian ...
in
Copenhagen while serving in the
Danish-Norwegian Navy. In 1693, he was assigned a personnel
chaplain
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at
Tingvoll
Tingvoll is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Tingvollvågen. Other villages include Meisingset, Kvisvik, and Torjulvågen. The municipality cove ...
in
Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...
. Nils Engelhart had several priesthood assignments in
Nordmøre and
Romsdal in subsequently years.
Engelhart was an active participant of the
pietist association ''Syvstjernen'', along with his friend
Thomas von Westen
Thomas von Westen (13 September 1682 – 9 April 1727) was a Norwegian Lutheran priest and missionary. He was a driving force in the Sami mission, and founded the education institution ''Seminarium Scholasticum'', the later Seminarium Lapponic ...
. The influence from ''Syvstjernen'' marked a beginning of the
Pietism movement in Norway. Engelhart died in
Veøy
Veøy is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. It initially consisted of all of the present-day Vestnes Municipality, as well as the southern part of Molde M ...
in 1719.
See also
*
Church of Norway
The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...
References
Date of birth unknown
1719 deaths
People from Meldal
17th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy
Year of birth uncertain
18th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy
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