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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