Julius Christensen (6 December 1840 – 19 October 1923) was a Norwegian doctor and politician for the

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. He was born in

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as a son of ship-owner and merchant Søren Lorents Christensen (1810–1862) and Othilie Juliane Kruge (1820–1903). He was the elder brother of military officer

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and whaler Christen Christensen, and through the latter an uncle of

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.''Hvem er hvem?'' 1912
pp. 47–48 He started his working career at sea, and took the

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examination. In 1862 he returned to land, finishing his secondary education in 1864. He enrolled at the

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where he graduated from with the

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degree in 1871. He studied abroad for one year, mostly in

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. In September 1871 he married governess and later cookbook pioneer Dorothea von der Lippe Frost, settling in Sandefjord as a private doctor. He remained here for the rest of his career, he was also a doctor during the Jarlsberg Line construction (1878–1882) as well as savings bank director from 1880. He was a member of Sandar

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from 1880 to 1884, then mayor of Sandefjord from 1894 to 1897. In the

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he was elected as a deputy representative to the

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from the constituency ''Larvik og Sandefjord''. In the 1907 Norwegian local elections he again became mayor of Sandefjord, this time serving until 1910. He was elected to another term as deputy representative to Parliament for the term 1913–1915. He was the father of the doctor Reidar Gording and paternal grandfather of Elisabeth Gording. He died in October 1923.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Christensen, Julius 1840 births 1923 deaths People from Sandefjord University of Oslo alumni Norwegian general practitioners Mayors of places in Vestfold Deputy members of the Storting Conservative Party (Norway) politicians