Jens Stub (3 March 1764 – 24 October 1819) was a

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priest and politician. He was vicar on the island of Veøya and served as a representative at the

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in 1814.

Biography

He was the son of district stipendiary magistrate (''sorenskriver'') Johan Daniel Stub (1736–1802) and grandson of Lauritz Stub (1708-1774), both of whom served as judges in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

. He grew up in the parish of Eid in the county of

Sogn og Fjordane Sogn og Fjordane (; English: "Sogn and Fjordane") was, up to 1 January 2020, a county in western Norway, when it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland, the cou ...

, Norway. His brother was Gerhard Heiberg Stub (1781-1831), a merchant in Bergen. In August 1793 he married his cousin Gjertrud Helene Heiberg (1774–1852) at Talvik in Finnmark.Genealogy
/ref> Jens Stub was a priest by education. He earned his degree in theology ( Cand.theol.) in 1788. He was a Church of Norway priest at Alta-Talvik 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 ...

. He was vicar of the parish of Veøy in Romsdalsfjord from 1801 until his death,Jens Stub
at NRK Sogn og Fjordane County Encyclopedia when he was succeeded by Johan Christopher Haar Daae. Stub was a member of the

in 1814. He served as a representative of Romsdals Amt together with Hilmar Meincke Krohg and

Elling Olsson Walbøe Elling Olsson Walbøe (26 May 1763 – 13 December 1831) was a Norwegian farmer, builder, and member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly. Walbøe was born at the Valbø farm of Ørskog parish in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Later he bought th ...

. During negotiations at the National Assembly, he voted with the Union Party (''Unionspartiet''). Jens Stub
nbsp;— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) He died in a boating accident during 1819 at Tresfjord in Møre og Romsdal.

References

1764 births 1819 deaths People from Sogn og Fjordane Møre og Romsdal politicians Norwegian priest-politicians Fathers of the Constitution of Norway {{Norway-politician-1760s-stub