Name Niels Hertzberg | Role Handball | |
Niels Hertzberg (13 August 1759 – 21 October 1841) was the Norwegian priest and politician.
He was born in Finnås in Hordaland, Norway. He was a son of vicar Peder Harboe Hertzberg (1728–1802) and Christiane Winding (1737–1801). He was first married, from November 1786, to Maria Elisabeth Weinwich (1759–1818). After her death, he married Anne Christine Egede Thomsen (1789–1860). They had a son, Nils Christian Egede Hertzberg. He was also a great-grandfather of Charles Hertzberg, Halfdan Hertzberg, Arthur Johan Hertzberg, Johan Hertzberg and Mikael Skjelderup Hertzberg.
He attended Bergen Cathedral School from 1776 to 1778, and graduated from the University of Copenhagen with the cand.theol. degree in 1783. He pursued an ecclesiastic career, as vicar in Kvinnherad from 1786, and then vicar of Kinsarvik and Ullensvang from 1804 to his death. From 1810 to 1832 he also doubled as dean of Hardanger and Voss. He was elected to the very first Parliament of Norway in 1814 as a representative of Søndre Bergenhus Amt (now Hordaland).
He was also a topographic writer. He was biographed himself by Sjur Sekse in 2012.He was a fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1806, and was decorated as a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1811. He died in October 1841 in Ullensvang.