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widely distributed writings it fostered intellectual enlightenment. The
peasant political movement started soon after 18 30 among his followers.
This explains Bjornson’s great sympathy with Hauge and his school.
Modern bishop-synod’s letter, the dogmatic literalism of the State
Church, seeking to impose itself on free popular religious faith.
Chambers, reference to proposals to revise the Act of Union with
Sweden, in particular to the plan of a Union-Parliament, all of which
were rejected by Norway.
Folk-high-school’s, see page 257.
Page 141.
OLE GaBRIEL UELAND (born October 28, 1799; died January 9, 1870)
was the son of a farmer. He was self-taught, reading all the books he
could find in the region about his home; became a school teacher in
1817. His marriage in 1827 brought to him the farm Ueland, whose
name he took. He early became foremost in his district, and from 1833
to 1869 was member of the Storting for Stavanger. He organized and
led the Peasant party. In his time one of Norway’s most remarkable
men, the most talented peasant and most powerful member of the Stor-
ting, belonging to the generation before Sverdrup, he prepared the way
for the latter, with whom he then cooperated. Sverdrup once said: “All
of us who are engaged in practical politics are Ueland’s pupils.”
Page 143.
AnTon MarTIN SCHWEIGAARD, jurist and statesman, was born in
Krageré, April 11, 1808, and died in Christiania, February 1, 1870.
After five years as lecturer in the University he was, in 1840, made
professor of law, political economy, and statistics. Regarded as the most
representative Norwegian of his age and its aspirations, he was called
by his countrymen “ Norway’s best son.” Though interested in the re-
form of education and the introduction of European culture, and hence
favorable to Danish literature, standing with Welhaven and against
Wergeland, it was in economics that his influence was greatest, and
indeed greater than that of any other one man in all Scandinavia. He
was the soul of the organizing labor that accompanied and conditioned
Norway’s surprisingly rapid material advance in the decades before and
after the middle of the nineteenth century. A friend of Scandinavism,
in politics a liberal conservative, but never a party man, he was member
of the Storting for Christiania from 1842 to 1869. Schweigaard’s per-
sonality contributed most to the high esteem in which he was univer-
sally held; his character was open and direct, actively unselfish, loftily
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