Edvard Hagerup

Who was Edvard Hagerup?

Edvard Hagerup was a Norwegian solicitor and politician. He was born in Kristiansand, the son of a bishop Eiler Hagerup b. 1718 and Edvardine Magdalene Margarethe Christie.

In 1801, he studied in Copenhagen with Wilhelm Frimann Koren Brodtkorp Christie. Both became "Stiftsamtmann", the King's representative in a county. During the formation of the Constitution of Norway signed at Constitutional Assembly on the 17th of May 1814, Christie was secretary to the delegates led by Christian Magnus Falsen and Hagerup was adviser to the Danish Prince Christian Fredrik who was present.

He was a member of the first Norwegian Parliament, in the year 1814. He was asked to accept the post of minister, but that would require him to live in Stockholm, and he abstained. At that time he worked as an assessor.

Hagerup was later appointed County Governor of Nordre Bergenhus amt, serving from 1822 to 1831. Seated in Bergen, as Nordre Bergenhus was administrated from outside its territory, Hagerup was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from that city for the year 1824. In 1827 he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for a third time.