Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz

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Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz
Fredrikshald
In office
1827–1829
Personal details
Born25 January 1762
Vigvoll, Norway
Died11 May 1838

Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz (25 January 1762 – 11 May 1838) was a Norwegian Government Minister and Member of Parliament.[1][2]

Biography

Lerbaek Hovedgaard

Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz was born at Vigvoll, Tveit near Kristiansand, Norway. His father, Otto Christian Rosenkrantz, was a Danish career military officer in various Dano-Norwegian regiments who served as commander of Vardøhus Fortress.[3]

He attended the Royal Military mathematical school in Christiania (now Oslo) from 1776 to 1780. In 1781, a became student at the University of Copenhagen where he earned his law degree in 1784. He worked for several years as an assessor for Overhoffretten, the highest court in Norway and later the County Court in Christiania.

In 1786, he bought Lerbaek Hovedgard manor at Frederikshavn with assets inherited from a distant relative, and moved there in 1790. [4] In 1796 he married Maren Juel, by which he became a sizable landowner. After the death of her husband, Peder Holter (1723–1786), Maren Juel owned and managed a number of properties including Losby in Lørenskog as well as the estates Hafslund and Borregaard in Sarpsborg and the Ljan Estate (Ljansbruket) which included Stubljan in Nordstrand and Hvitebjørn in Oppegård. In time, they became one of the largest sawmill owners and timber exporters in the country.[5]

Rosenkrantz was among those who met at

Fredrikshald.[6]

Honors

References

  1. ^ Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz (Store norske leksikon)
  2. ^ Marcus Rosenktrantz (Eidsvoll 1814)
  3. ^ Frank Kiel Jacobsen: Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz - Godseier, Trelasthandler og Embedsperson (Norsk biografisk leksikon)
  4. ^ "Lerbæk Hovedgård". lerbaekhovedgaard.dk. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  5. ^ "Ljansbruket (Oppegård bibliotek)". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  6. ^ Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz (Norsk samfunnsvitenskapelig)

Further reading