Brynjólfur Pétursson

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This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name

; this person is referred to by the given name Brynjólfur.

Brynjólfur was born in Víðivellir in Skagafjörður and was one of the "Víðvellir brothers", the sons of profast Pétur Pétursson and his second wife, Þóra Brynjólfsdóttir. His brothers were Jón Pétursson, a judge, and Pétur Pétursson, a bishop.

Brynjólfur died an unmarried man in Copenhagen in 1851, leaving no children.

Education and career

Brynjólfur graduated from Bessastaðir in 1828 and attained a degree in jurisprudence from the University of Copenhagen in 1837. He then became a Danish government official, working in the Danish ministry of finance. He became chief administrator at the Iceland office in Copenhagen following the abolition of absolutism in Denmark in 1848, and a representative for Iceland in the Danish constitutional assembly 1848-1849.

In his student years, Brynjólfur was one of the

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Sources

• Candidati juris. Tímarit hinsi íslenzka bókmenntafélags, 3. árgangur 1882.

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