Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz
Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz (* 1762 in Tveit near Kristiansand , † 1838 in Christiania ) was a Danish-Norwegian politician, baron and landowner. From 1814 to 1815 he was First Minister of Norway and later a member of the Folketing .
Life
Rosenkrantz was the son of career officer Otto Christian Rosenkrantz. His brother Niels Rosenkrantz later became Minister of State.
From 1776 to 1780 Rosenkrantz studied at the Royal Norwegian Mathematical School. In 1781 he was a student at the Randers Statsskole . In the same year he became a law student in Copenhagen and graduated there in 1784. In 1796 he married Maruen Juel, Norway's eldest widow, thirteen years his senior, who had owned important estates through her two previous marriages - Stubljan and Hvitebjørnbrug in Aker and Borregård and Hafslund in Smålenene .
From 1818 to 1820 and from 1824 to 1827 he was a member of the Storting for Smaalenes , from 1827 to 1829 he represented Fredrikshald .
On July 10, 1792, his daughter Karen F. Rosenkrantz was born. She married Count Eggert Christopher Knuth on December 12, 1810 , who was also a lawyer. Rosenkrantz's grandson Frederik Marcus Knuth became Denmark's first foreign minister.
literature
- Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 14 : Resen – Saxtrup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1900, p. 259 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Entry in Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Frederik von Haxthausen |
First Minister of Norway October 10–9. November 1814 |
Mathias Sommerhielm |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenkrantz, Marcus Gjøe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish-Norwegian politician, baron and landowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tveit , Kristiansand |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1838 |
| Place of death | Christiania |