Ulrik Anton Motzfeldt - Career

Career

Ulrik Anton Motzfeldt enrolled as a law student in 1823, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1826. In 1829 he was hired as a lector at the Royal Frederick University. He was promoted in 1834, to professor of jurisprudence. His most important publications include Den norske Kirkeret (1844) and Lovgivningen om Odelsretten og Aasædesretten (1846). From 1842 Ulrik Anton Motzfeldt also served as a Supreme Court Assessor.

Motzfeldt was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1851, representing the constituency of Smaalenenes Amt. He was re-elected in 1854, but this time representing the city of Christiania. He was then re-elected in 1857, 1859 and finally in 1862. He served as President of the Storting from 1857 to 1858, and President of the Lagting from 1859 to 1860. He also served as mayor of Kristiania from 1853 to 1860.

Motzfeldt died in July 1865 in Christiania.

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