Børge Johan Schultz
Børge Johan Schultz (born July 24, 1764 in Ringsaker , † August 18, 1826 on the farm Breili, Østre Toten ) was a Norwegian official and Greenland inspector .
Life
Schultz came from the Norwegian middle class and was homeschooled. He then worked for Norwegian administrative offices before graduating from the University of Copenhagen with a law degree in 1788 . In 1790 he was appointed inspector of North Greenland to succeed Jens Clausen Wille . His predecessor had left the colony in a disorganized state due to its rather dreamy character and Schultz wanted to restore the times of his predecessor and first inspector Johan Friedrich Schwabe , who had managed the colony until 1786. However, there were major problems during his tenure, because the fishing grounds were emptier and also excessively fished by England , so that a famine broke out in Greenland and a wage conflict, which Schultz was able to resolve. Like Schwabe, he was interested in the welfare of the Greenlanders, so he let the surgeon Theodor Christian Eulner, paid from Schwabe's aid fund, work in Greenland. During his term of office, the change he had initiated, which relaxed the Greenlandic marriage law, so that Europeans were now also allowed to marry Inuit. In 1796 he asked for his impeachment, which was accepted the following year. His successor was Claus Bendeke , who had previously been stationed in South Greenland and whose office was again taken over by Niels Rosing Bull . In 1800, after a compulsory three-year break, he was appointed Vogt of Østre Toten , Vandal and Biri . After his resignation in 1825, he remained at his official residence, where he died the following year.
family
Børge Johan Schultz was the son of Major Christopher Jørgen Schultz (1725–1773) and Johanne Crantz Eeg (1739–1824). He married his half-cousin Martinette Christine Schultz Eeg (1753-1836), daughter of Vogts Jacob Andreas Eeg (~ 1715-1787) and Elisabeth Leganger (1720-1779) in Eidsvoll in 1790 . Schultz's mother and Martinette's father were half siblings. The couple had two children: Jørgen Christopher (1792-1802) and Gjertrud Dorothea (1794-1802), but they did not reach adulthood.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
- ↑ Article in the Lokalhistoriewiki
- ↑ pedigree at moldeglimt.no
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schultz, Børge Johan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian civil servant and inspector from Greenland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ringsaker |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1826 |
| Place of death | Østre dead |