Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen (19 November 1744 - 13 February 1802) was a Norwegian-Danish jurist who served as Chief Justice of the

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(Da. ''Højesteret'', Nor. ''Høyesterett''). Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen was born at

Sørum Sørum was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Sørumsand. Sørum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see ...

Akershus Akershus () is a county in Norway, with Oslo as its administrative centre, though Oslo is not located within Akershus. Akershus has been a region in Eastern Norway with Oslo as its main city since the Middle Ages, and is named after the Akers ...

, Norway (during the time it was part of

Denmark–Norway Denmark–Norway (Danish language, Danish and Norwegian language, Norwegian: ) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (includ ...

). He was raised in the traditional region of

Romerike Romerike is a Districts of Norway, traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. It consists of the Akershus municipalities Lillestrøm, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Rælingen and Aurskog-Høland in the southern ...

. His parents were Colbjørn Colbjørnsen Jacobsen (1714-1761) and Anna Dorothea Røring (1710-1772). Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, along with his brothers, Edvard Røring Colbjørnsen (1751–1792), Christian Colbjørnsen attended the Christiania Cathedral School. He studied law at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

. Subsequently, he served as a professor of law at the University of Copenhagen and later as extraordinary assessor in the Supreme Court. He served as the chief justice from 1799 until his death in 1802. His brother, Christian Colbjørnsen was chief justice of Denmark-Norway from 1804 until 1814.

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1744 births 1802 deaths People from Akershus People educated at Oslo Cathedral School University of Copenhagen alumni Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen 19th-century Norwegian people Chief justices of Denmark–Norway 18th-century Danish judges Norwegian jurists {{Denmark-law-bio-stub