Gregers Winther Wulfsberg (26 October 1780 – 23 September 1846) was a Norwegian

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and politician, and a member of the

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that wrote the

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on 17 May 1814.

Personal life

Wulfsberg was born in

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as the son of merchant and district stipendiary magistrate Jacob Wulfsberg (1751–1826) and Inger Helvig Seeberg (1752–1797). He was a brother of priest and publisher Niels Wulfsberg. In 1811 he married Johanne Iverine Friborg. They were the grandparents of politician and Prime Minister Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram. He was also father-in-law of judge

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Career

Wulfsberg took a private

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in 1801, and later studied law at the

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, and finished his degree in 1804. He was stipendiary magistrate in the city

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from 1811, and from 1822 also district stipendiary magistrate to the Moss district. He was elected as a delegate from Moss to the

in 1814. His proposition that Government Ministers should be appointed by the

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received only a single vote (his own), while the assembly adopted his other proposition, that two brothers or father and son could not simultaneously be members of the Government. Wulfsberg was a member of the

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in 1824, 1827 and 1828, representing Moss. He was a County Governor of Smaalenenes Amt from 1831 to his death. Wulfsberg was decorated Knight of the

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in 1826. He died in September 1846 in Moss. His diaries from 1814 are printed in Yngvar Nielsen's ''Bidrag til Norges Historie i 1814, Volume I'' (1882).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wulfsberg, Gregers Winther 1780 births 1846 deaths Norwegian jurists Fathers of the Constitution of Norway Members of the Storting Østfold politicians County governors of Norway Knights of the Order of the Polar Star People from Moss, Norway Politicians from Tønsberg