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 a son of Christian Fredrik Hambro and Stine Bødtker. On the maternal side he was a nephew of B. A. Bødtker. On the paternal side he was a first cousin of Edvard Isak Hambro Bull and the educator Edvard Isak Hambro

Edvard Isak Hambro (educator)

-Personal life:He was born in Bergen as a son of Carl Joachim Hambro and Angelique Cathrine Bull . Edvard Isak Hambro had six sisters and one older brother. His paternal grandfather was a Danish Jew who had migrated to Norway in 1810. He was a maternal grandson of Georg Jacob Bull, brother-in-law...

, and a first cousin once removed of the British banker Charles Joachim Hambro

Carl Joachim Hambro (banker)

Baron Carl Joachim Hambro was the founder of Hambros Bank, one of the United Kingdom's largest investment banks.-Personal life:He was born in Copenhagen as a son of Joseph Hambro . The family lineage can be traced to Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein in the 1720s...

. His paternal grandfather was a Danish Jew who had migrated to Norway in 1810.

In August 1881 in Fet

Fet

Fet is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fetsund.Fet was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838...

 married his second cousin Julie Sejersted Bødtker. He thus became a brother-in-law of Major General Carl Fredrik Johannes Bødtker

Carl Fredrik Johannes Bødtker

Carl Fredrik Johannes Bødtker was a Norwegian military officer, teacher and writer.-Personal life:Bødtker was born in Christiania, the son of district stipendiary magistrate Job Dischington Bødtker and his wife Fredrikke Sophie Sejersted...

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Career

He finished his secondary education in 1869, and first studied philology, then jurisprudence from 1873. He graduated from the Royal Frederick University

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...

 in 1875 with the cand.jur. degree. He worked as a lawyer and public jurist before being named as an assessor

Assessor (law)

In some jurisdictions, an assessor is a judge's or magistrate's assistant. This is in fact the historical meaning of this word.-By country:In Denmark, it was the former title given to Supreme Court judges. Today the title is given to Deputy Judges...

 (judge) in Kristiania City Court

Oslo District Court

Oslo District Court is the district court serving Oslo, Norway. Cases may be appealed to Borgarting Court of Appeal. As the largest district court in Norway, it handles about 20% of all cases in the country...

 in 1891. From 1910 to 1921 he was an assessor in the Supreme Court of Norway

Supreme Court of Norway

The Supreme Court of Norway was established in 1815 on the basis of the Constitution of Norway's §88, prescribing an independent judiciary. It is located in Oslo and is Norway's highest court...

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He also worked as a lecturer at the University, notably in Roman law

Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the 7th century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the language of government. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence — from the Twelve...

. Academic works in this field include Omrids av den romerske civilproces (1887), Den romerske obligationsrets specielle del (1921), Den romerske tingsret (1921), Den romerske familie- og arveret (1923) and Om nogle med forbud beslegtede retsmidler i den romerske ret (1924). He wrote numerous other books, and contributed to the journals Norsk Retstidende

Norsk Retstidende

Norsk Retstidende is a periodical published by the Norwegian Bar Association. The journal was established in 1836, and had its current name since 1909. Norsk Retstidende publishes judgements of the Supreme Court of Norway, and rulings of the Appeals Selection Committee....

and Tidsskrift for Retsvidenskap.

He served in Kristiania city council from 1902 to 1907. He died in 1936.