Waldemar Hvoslef (17 March 1825 – 5 May 1906) was a Norwegian Lutheran bishop.
Fredrik Waldemar Hvoslef was born in
Christiania (now Oslo) and grew up in
Holmestrand
is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Holmestrand. The town was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). T ...
in
Vestfold
Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered t ...
. He was the son of Jens Hvoslef (1783–1830) who served as Magistrate of
Nordre Jarlsberg, now
Vestfold
Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered t ...
. He began to study theology during 1850.
Hvoslef arrived in
Kautokeino
Kautokeino ( no, Kautokeino; se, Guovdageaidnu ; fkv, Koutokeino; fi, Koutokeino) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other village ...
in
Finnmark
Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024.
On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...
to serve as minister at the time of the
Kautokeino Uprising in 1852. During that event two men, the local sheriff and the tradesman, were killed, while Hvoslef was attacked. The rebels were later seized by other
Sami
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, who killed two of the rebels in the process. Hvoslef later served as pastor for the convicted
Mons Somby
Mons Aslaksen Somby (14 February 1825 – 14 October 1854) was one of the leaders of the Sami rioters that attacked several Norwegian shops during the Kautokeino rebellion of 1852. During the uprising a merchant and the town sheriff were ki ...
and
Aslak Hætta
Aslak Jacobsen Hætta (24 January 1824 – 14 October 1854) was one of the leaders of the Sami revolt in Guovdageaidnu, called the Kautokeino Rebellion, in November 1852. During the riots, the merchant Carl Johan Ruth and the local govern ...
at their execution in 1854.
He was appointed Bishop of
Tromsø stift in 1868. In 1881 he was appointed Bishop of the
Diocese of Bjørgvin, and served in this position until his retirement in 1898.
He was married to Alette Katrine Frost (1826–1902) with whom he had nine children.
''Fredrik Valdemar Hvoslef'' (Benkestokkslekt fra Andøya)
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See also
*The Kautokeino Rebellion
''The Kautokeino Rebellion'' ( no, Kautokeino-opprøret, se, Guovdageainnu Stuimmit) is a 2008 film based on the true story of the Kautokeino riots in Kautokeino, Norway in 1852 in response to the Norwegian exploitation of the Sami community a ...
*Laestadianism
Laestadianism, also known as Laestadian Lutheranism and Apostolic Lutheranism, is a pietistic Lutheran revival movement started in Sápmi in the middle of the 19th century. Named after Swedish Lutheran state church administrator and temperance ...
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1825 births
1906 deaths
Clergy from Oslo
People from Holmestrand
Bishops of Hålogaland
Bishops of Bjørgvin
People in Sámi history
Kautokeino rebellion
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