Otto Joachim Løvenskiold (14 May 1811 – 4 August 1882) was a Norwegian judge and politician. He served three terms in the

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, and served as Mayor of Kristiania from 1869 and 1876. He was a

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from 1854 to his death. By birth, he was a member of the Løvenskiold noble family.

Personal life

He was born at Fossum in

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(now

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) as a son of Governor-general of Norway

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(1777–1856). He was a grandnephew of Bartholomæus Herman Løvenskiold, great-grandson of and nephew of . In September 1837 in Sem he married Julie Caroline Helene Wedel-Jarlsberg, a daughter of Count Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg and Karen Christiane Andrea Anker. His wife died already in 1840, only 34 years old. Løvenskiold then married Eleonora Mansbach (1825–1869) in August 1845 in Frederikshald. She was a daughter of Lieutenant General and politician Carl von und zu Mansbach and his wife Anna Sophia Maria Anker. Their son

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(1838–1910) became a colonel by rank, and served as

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. Another son

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(1839–1916) became Prime Minister in Stockholm. Through them, Otto Joachim was a grandfather of Carl Løvenskiold and Harald Løvenskiold, and a great-grandfather of Carl Axel Løvenskiold and Carl Otto Løvenskiold, Jr.

Career

Løvenskiold took his secondary education in

, together with Anton Martin Schweigaard and

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. He finished school in 1828, then enrolled in higher education and took the

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degree in 1834. He worked as a junior solicitor, as secretary in the

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and as an audit in the Artillery Brigade. He was appointed as deputy under-secretary of state in the

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in 1847, and in 1854 he became an Assessor in the Supreme Court. He started his political career as Mayor of Kristiania, a position he held from 1869 to 1876. He was elected to the

in 1871, representing the constituency of ''Kristiania, Hønefos og Kongsvinger''. He was re-elected in 1874 and 1877. He stood for the election of 1880, but failed as he did not receive enough votes in a primary election in 1879. Løvenskiold's exit from national politics came as a hard blow to his career. He had rejected an offer to become

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in the 1870s, citing his wish to conduct parliamentary work instead, and in 1877 he had rejected an offer to become

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for the same reason. In 1879, he received the dr.juris degree at the

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. In 1881, he became the praeses of the Royal Norwegian Society of Development. He was also chairman of the

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, and a board member of ''Den norske Håndverks- og Industriforening'' and a member of ''Det skandinaviske Selskab''. He died in August 1882 in Kristiania.

References

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