Childhood
Stang grew up in straitened circumstances. His father was most of his life an underpaid judge, first in Ryfylke and later in Nordhordland. His father struggled to find money for the children's education. As a 13-year-old Frederick was in the Latin school in Bergen. From there, he was discharged only 16 years old and therefore needed special permission to take the test at school graduation. He remarked himself as the best of all of the 62 candidates, and the following year he took another exam præceteris. Even during school hours in Bergen, he had to make a living by giving private lessons, and as a student in Christiania, he continued as a teacher, since he was 18 years with the right to discharge their students to school graduation, and sometimes as a teacher at the Møller Institute (Møllerinstituttet). 22 years old, he accepted a position as lecturer of law at the University of Oslo. During this time, he published a seminal text on the Norwegian constitutional law. He went over to private practice in 1834, where he distinguished himself as a trial attorney, especially in supreme court cases.
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“Oh! mystery of man, from what a depth
Proceed thy honours. I am lost, but see
In simple childhood something of the base
On which thy greatness stands; but this I feel,
That from thyself it comes, that thou must give,
Else never canst receive. The days gone by
Return upon me almost from the dawn
Of life: the hiding-places of man’s power
Open; I would approach them, but they close.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“The route through childhood is shaped by many forces, and it differs for each of us. Our biological inheritance, the temperament with which we are born, the care we receive, our family relationships, the place where we grow up, the schools we attend, the culture in which we participate, and the historical period in which we live—all these affect the paths we take through childhood and condition the remainder of our lives.”
—Robert H. Wozniak (20th century)