Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne (11 November 1851 - 24 April 1930) was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 jurist, member of an old noble

Norwegian nobility

Norwegian nobility are persons and families who in early times belonged to the supreme social, political, and military class and who later were members of the institutionalised nobility in the Kingdom of Norway. It has its historical roots in the group of chieftains and warriors which evolved...

 family.

Personal life

He was born in Christiania

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 as the son of Vilhelm Ludvig Herman von Munthe af Morgenstierne

Vilhelm Ludvig Herman von Munthe af Morgenstierne

Vilhelm Ludvig Herman von Munthe af Morgenstierne was a Norwegian politician, part of an old noble family.He was born in Christiania as the son of Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne and his wife Cathrine Elisabeth Fries. His brother Christian Fredrik Jacob was a jurist as well as chief of...

 and his wife Fredrikke Nicoline Wilhelmine N. Sibbern. His maternal grandfather was Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern

Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern

Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern was a Norwegian government minister who served in different positions - as Minister of Auditing, Minister of Justice, Minister of the Army and Minister of the Navy - between 1830 and 1852. Before that he was County Governor of Smaalenenes Amt from 1814 to 1830....

, his paternal grandfather was Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, Sr.

Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, Sr.

Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne was a Norwegian jurist, part of an old noble family.-Personal life:...

, and through his aunt Augusta Julie Georgine he was the nephew of Prime Minister Frederik Stang

Frederik Stang

Frederik Stang was a Norwegian lawyer, public servant, and politician who served as Norway's first prime minister....

. His brother Wilhelm Herman Ludvig became a Major General

Major General

Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...

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Bredo Henrik married Berthe Schjelderup, sister of businessman Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup

Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup

-Personal life:He was born in Christiania as the son of Thorleif Schjelderup and Fredrikke Marie Caspary. His older sister Berte married Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, son of Vilhelm Ludvig Herman von Munthe af Morgenstierne....

 and aunt of Gunnar

Gunnar Schjelderup

-Personal life:He was born in Christiania, and was the brother of judge Ferdinand Schjelderup. He was a son of Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup, nephew of Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne and uncle of ski jumper Thorleif Schjelderup.-Career:...

 and Ferdinand Schjelderup

Ferdinand Schjelderup

Ferdinand Schjelderup was a Norwegian mountaineer, Supreme Court Justice and resistance member during the German occupation of Norway.-Personal life:He was born in Kristiania as the son of Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup and Inga Berven...

. The couple had three sons and one daughter. His son Otto Christofer (1884–1975) became an attorney, Wilhelm Thorleif (1887–1963) became the Ambassador of Norway to the United States of America earning the position of seniority as Dean of the Diplomatic Corps (married to Marjorie Alder of Winsor, Canada) and Georg Valentin (1892–1978) became a noted Indo-iranist who undertook pioneering studies in Pashto and associated dialects, Balochi, Kashmiri and the Dardic languages.

Career

Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne made a career as a jurist. He took the dr.juris degree in 1887, and became acting professor at the University of Kristiania

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 the same year. In 1889 the position was made permanent. His principal work was Lærebog i den norske statsforfatningsret, published in 1900. He later became chairman of the Collegium academicum at the University of Kristiania. A personal friend of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway

Oscar II of Sweden

Oscar II , baptised Oscar Fredrik was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until 1905. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.-Early life:At his birth in Stockholm, Oscar...

, in 1905 Morgenstierne was reluctant to acknowledge the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 on behalf of the university, but soon bowed to the pressure from the rest of the collegium. From 1912 to 1918 he was rector of the Royal Frederick University.

He was also a noted numismatician

Numismatics

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He died in 1930 in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

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