Rolf Olsen (13 February 1818 – 7 June 1864) was a Norwegian politician and playwright.

Biography

Rolf Olsen was born in

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, Norway. He was the son of Andreas Schram Olsen (1791–1841), the bailiff ('' byfogd'') of Bergen. He was a student in

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and earned a ''

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'' in 1842. In 1846, he was employed as a clerk in the Interior Ministry until 1852. He also worked as a journalist, especially for ''

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'', where he was an editor from 1848. Between 1840 and 1850, he wrote several plays including both tragedies and comedies.List of publications in BIBSYS
/ref> He was elected to the

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in 1854, 1857, 1859 and 1862, representing the constituency of Østerrisøer in

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county, Norway.Rolf Olsen
— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) In 1863, he was appointed as a judge in

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, but died the following year.

Selected works

* (1840) * (1848) * (1849) * (1850)

References

1818 births 1864 deaths Norwegian jurists Members of the Storting Aust-Agder politicians People from Risør 19th-century Norwegian writers 19th-century Norwegian dramatists and playwrights Norwegian male dramatists and playwrights {{Norway-politician-1810s-stub