Hans Gerhard Colbjørnsen Meldahl (5 October 1815 – 25 December 1877) was a

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jurist and politician. He was elected to the

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in 1854 and 1857, representing the constituency of ''Trondhjem og Levanger''.Hans Gerhard Colbjørnsen Meldahl born 1815
- Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) He was

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from 17 December 1861 to 8 January 1874, except for the periods October 1863 to September 1864, October 1866 to October 1867, June 1869 to July 1870 and October 1871 to September 1872 when he was assigned as a member of the Council of State Division in

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. Outside politics he was a jurist and had graduated as

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in 1837.Biographies
hosted by Trondheim public library In 1854 he was a

stipendiary magistrate Stipendiary magistrates were magistrates that were paid for their work (they received a stipend). They existed in the judiciaries of the United Kingdom and those of several former British territories, where they sat in the lowest-level criminal ...

() of

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; in 1857 he had been appointed

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judge. He served as the sixth

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from 1874 to 1877.

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1815 births 1877 deaths Members of the Storting Politicians from Trondheim Government ministers of Norway Chief justices of Norway Ministers of Justice of Norway {{Norway-politician-1810s-stub