Study Years
In the first year of his studies, Stang was a good friend of Henrik Wergeland but they were in love with the same girl and a growing conflict became inevitable. The flamboyant "studenterliv" that a majority of the students brought with Wergeland in the lead, was in violation of Stang' ideals of duty, which was fed by economic distress. He was active in the Norwegian Students' Society and chairman of two brief periods, but withdrew along with the other of "intelligence", the circle of the most gifted and promising students Count Wedel gathered about him in "the circuit at Bogstad": JS Welhaven, Christian Birch-Reichenwald, Bernhard Dunker, PA Munch and AM Schweigaard. In particular, Wedel was preferred and probably the one he saw as his heir in politics. "You are, as if you were engaged to Stang," said the countess to her husband: "When he is present, you forget all us others." Then the circle broke away and formed The Norwegian Students' Association, Stang were the editor of the associations magazine Vidar, but other than this, his relationships with the other members were relatively distant.
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