Hans Jacob Grøgaard (5 April 1764 – 22 March 1836) was a Norwegian parish priest and writer. He served as a representative at the

Norwegian Constituent Assembly The Norwegian Constituent Assembly (in Norwegian ''Grunnlovsforsamlingen'', also known as ''Riksforsamlingen'') is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in Norway, that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised t ...

in 1814.

Background

Hans Jacob Grøgaard was born in

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, Norway. At age three, the family moved to

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, where his father was sexton at St. Jørgen's Hospital Church (''St. Jørgen hospitalkirke''). Grøgaard started his education at the Bergen Cathedral School. He studied

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and earned his theological degree in 1784.

Career

In 1797, he became a chaplain at Øyestad Church in Aust-Agder. In 1811, he became vicar at

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in Aust-Agder. In 1822, he became pastor at

Nykirken Nykirken (literally: "The new church") is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the Nordnes area of the city of Bergen. It is one of the churches for the Bergen Cathedral paris ...

in Bergen and in 1832 he was offered the

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in Christiania (now Oslo), but had to decline because of poor health. He published the

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''ABC'' in 1815, and the reader ''Læsebog for Børn, især i Omgangsskoledistrikterne'' in 1816. Both were used within schools throughout Norway during much of the 1800s Hans Jacob Grøgaard represented Nedenes amt (now Aust-Agder) at the

in 1814. He was joined fellow delegates Ole Knudsen Tvedten and Henrik Carstensen. At

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, he supported the position of the union party (''Unionspartiet''

References

External links

''Representantene på Eidsvoll 1814'' (Cappelen Damm AS) ''Men of Eidsvoll'' (eidsvollsmenn)

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