Education and Career
His parents were Karl Hovden and Johanne Velle. His father died when he was 16, but fellow Ørsta native Ivar Aasen helped him get an education: first the teachers' training college in Volda, then examen artium in Oslo. Here Hovden became cand.theol. in 1886 and then worked some years as a teacher. From 1891 he was a Lutheran Minister in Lista, Son, Sande, Vanse, Krødsherad, Melhus and Østre Toten.
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