1842 in Norway explained

Events in the year 1842 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch

Charles III John.^[1]

Events

• Porsgrunn was granted full city status. Limited city status was granted in 1807.
• Flekkefjord was granted full city status.
• Lillehammer was granted full city status.
• The Norwegian Missionary Society was founded in Stavanger.
• The eleventh Storting convened, following the 1841 election.
• The Conventicle Act was repealed.
• The Witchcraft Act (Trolldomslov) is abolished.^[2]

Arts and literature

• Ivar Aasen commenced his research on rural dialects all across Norway

Births

January to June

• 16 March – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician (d.1910).^[3]
• 1 April – Edmund Neupert, pianist and composer (d.1888)
• 12 June – Rikard Nordraak, composer (d.1866)
• 26 May – Evald Rygh, banker, politician and Minister (d.1913)

July to December

• 6 August – Karl Gether Bomhoff, pharmacist, politician and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway (d. 1925).^[4]
• 31 August – Ole Bornemann Bull, ophthalmologist (d.1916)
• 2 December – Robert Collett, zoologist (d.1913)
• 16 December – Otto Sinding, painter (d.1909)
• 17 December – Sophus Lie, mathematician (d.1899).^[5]

Full date unknown

• Nils S. Dvergsdal, politician (d.1921)

Deaths

• 16 March – Maurits Hansen, writer (b.1794)

Full date unknown

• Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, poet, dramatist and judge (b.1792)
• Wilhelm Jürgensen, military officer (b.1762)

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Karl Johan . Magnus A. . Mardal . . Bolstad . Erik . Norsk nettleksikon . Oslo . no . 18 December 2023.
2. Web site: Scott . Jess . 2020-05-22 . The Story of Spå-Eilev: Once Upon a Time in 19th-Century Telemark . 2022-09-21 . Life in Norway . en-US.
3. Web site: Theodor Nilsen Stousland . Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) . Norwegian . 7 November 2012.
4. Encyclopedia: Karl Gether Bomhoff . Trond . Gram . . Bolstad . Erik . Norsk nettleksikon . Oslo . Norwegian . 20 November 2020.
5. Encyclopedia: Sophus Lie . Karl Egil . Aubert . Inger Lise A. . Delphin . . Bolstad . Erik . Norsk nettleksikon . Oslo . Norwegian . 20 November 2020.