Jonas Schanche Kielland

Jonas Schanche Kielland (11 July 1791 - 3 July 1852) was a Norwegian consul and politician.

Personal life

He was born in Stavanger to Gabriel Schanche Kielland (1760-1821) and Johanna Margaretha Kielland (1756-1818). [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kielland/slekt/per00540.htm#0 Jonas Schanche Kielland genealogy] ] He had three older brothers and two older sisters, [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kielland/slekt/per00056.htm Gabriel Schanche Kielland genealogy] ] but his youngest sister Elisabeth only survived for a month, and the oldest brother Jacob died at the age of 1. Another brother named Jacob would become a wealthy businessman, Jens Bull Kielland became a military officer. The prominent novelist Alexander Lange Kielland was his grandnephew, so was the politician of whom Jonas Schanche Kielland was the namesake.

Jonas Schanche Kielland did not marry.b]

Career

Jonas Schanche Kielland graduated as cand.jur. in Copenhagen in 1809. During his time as student he was a member of The Norwegian Society. In 1817 he started working in his father's merchant company "Jacob Kielland & Søn". He passed a business exam in 1821, and as his father died the same year, Jonas took over as director of the company together with his brother Jacob. Jonas Schanche Kielland was vice consul for Denmark in 1820, Great Britain in 1821, and the Russian Empire in 1821.c]

He was the first mayor of Stavanger, being elected in 1837 when local government was introduced in Norway. He later sat a second term. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1839, representing the constituency of Stavanger. [http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=storting&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=11580 Jonas Schanche Kielland] — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) ] He sat through one term.

From 1845 he worked as the public trustee. He died in 1852 in Stavanger.d]

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