1832 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles III John.
• First Minister: Jonas Collett

Events

• 11 June - 25 June – The Norwegian ultramarathoner Mensen Ernst ran about 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) from Paris to Moscow in 14 days.

Arts and literature

• The newspaper Drammens Tidende is established.
• Det Dramatiske Selskab in Tromsø is founded.

Births

• 19 March – Frantz Bruun, priest (d.1908)
• 27 May – Laura Gundersen, actor (d.1898)
• 22 July – Ananias Dekke, ships designer (died 1892).
• 1 August – Andreas Olsen Sæhlie, farmer, distillery owner and politician (d. 1895).
• 20 September – Marie Wexelsen, writer (died 1911).
• 13 October – Johan Wilhelm Eide, printer, publisher and newspaper editor (died 1896).
• 8 December – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d.1910).
• 15 December – Wilhelm Christopher Christophersen, diplomat (d.1913)

Full date unknown

• Nils Henrik Bruun, engineer (d.1916)
• Jens Andersen Hagen, politician
• Anders Heyerdahl, violinist, composer and folk music collector (d.1918)
• Knud Knudsen, photographer (d.1915)
• Bernt Julius Muus, Lutheran minister (d.1900)

Deaths

• 28 January - Carsten Tank, politician (b.1766)
• 3 November - Gabriel Lund, merchant and representative at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly (b.1773)

References

References

1. Mardal, Magnus A.. "Karl Johan". Norsk nettleksikon.
2. "Ananias Christopher Hansen Dekke". Norsk nettleksikon.
3. (1927). "Sæhlie, Andreas Olsen". J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel.
4. "Marie Wexelsen". Norsk nettleksikon.
5. Tveterås, Egil. "Johan Wilhelm Eide". Kunnskapsforlaget.
6. Hannevik, Arne. "Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson". Kunnskapsforlaget.