Tellef Dahll Schweigaard

Tellef Dahll Schweigaard (7 August 1806 - 27 May 1886) was a Norwegian politician.

Personal life

He was born in Kragerø as the oldest son of merchant Jørgen Fredrich Schweigaard (1771-1818) and his wife Johanne Marie Dahll (1785-1818). [http://home.online.no/~olillebo/Gunleik.htm Genealogy] ] His paternal grandfather had immigrated to Norway from Holstein.cite encyclopedia |year=2007 |title=Schweigaard |encyclopedia=Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location= |url=http://www.snl.no/article.html?id=748643 ] He had one older sister and two younger brothers, one of whom were Anton Martin Schweigaard, a professor and ten-term member of the Norwegian Parliament.b] As their parents died early, they were raised by relatives. [http://www.kragero.vgs.no/historie/omkring1814.html A. M. Schweigaards oppvekst in Kragerø omkring 1814] ]

Tellef Dahll Schweigaard married fellow Kragerø citizen Marie Margrethe Rømer (1814-1889). The couple had four children. Their only daughter Marie Magdalene married jurist and politician Lars Anton Nicolai Larsen-Naur. Their son Johan Elias married a daughter of Niels Anker Stang,c] became a senior physician, and was the grandfather of judge and politician Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer.b] Through his brother Anton Martin, Tellef was also the uncle of later Prime Minister Christian Homann Schweigaard.d]

Career

Tellef Dahll Schweigaard worked as a wholesaler and timber merchant.e]

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Kragerø in 1880. He only served one term. [http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=storting&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=12602 Tellef Dahll Schweigaard] — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) ] He had been mayor of Kragerø during the 1840s.b]

He died in 1886 in his hometown.f]

References