Ulrik Frederik Lange

Ulrik Frederik Lange (28 July 1808 – 8 September 1878) was a Norwegian educator and politician.[1]

Ulrik Frederik Lange

Background

Ulrik Frederik Johansen Lange was born at Jevnaker in Oppland, Norway. He was the son of Johan Jørgen Lange (1754-1814) and Dorothea Helena Larsen (1771-1824).[2] He was the younger brother of politicians Hans Nicolai Lange and Otto Vincent Lange,[3] brother-in-law of Nils Landmark and Even Hanssen and uncle of Johan Jørgen Lange Hanssen. He was a student at Oslo Cathedral School (1826) and graduated with a degree in theology (1832).[4]

Career

Lange was a teacher and school administrator. He worked as a headmaster in Tromsø. From 1849 to 1854 he was the teacher at Lillehammer and principal at the time of his death in 1878. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1842 and 1845, [1] He was then elected three more times, in 1854, 1857 and 1859, from the constituency Lillehammer og Hamar where he worked as a school principal .[1] Lange sat as mayor in Lillehammer in 1853, 1855 and 1861 to 1863. He was also director of Lillehammer sparebank from 1855 to 1861.

Personal life

In March 1833 he married Stine Charlotte Cathrine Blix (1808-1890). They had seven children.[2] He died in 1878 in Lillehammer.[2]

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References
  1. Ulrik Frederik Lange — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
  2. Ulrik Frederik Lange genealogy
  3. Family genealogy
  4. "Johan Jørgen Lange". vestraat.net. Retrieved June 15, 2016.


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