Nils Nilssøn Dahl

Niels Lauritz Dahl (18 July 1806 – 21 July 1854) was a Norwegian priest and politician.

He was born in Romsdal. He was the father of Walter Scott Dahl, Nikoline Harbitz, Konrad Dahl and Ulrikke Dahl,^[1][2] grandfather of Dagfinn Dahl and great-grandfather of Niels Lauritz Dahl.

He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1844 from Søndre Trondhjems Amt, and re-elected in 1847 and 1850.^[3] He was counted as liberal, and has been viewed as one of the best speakers in Parliament at the time. As a political ally of Henrik Wergeland, he wrote the draft when Parliament in 1851 abolished the prohibition of Jews in the Norwegian Constitution.^[1]

He was a curate^[3] before being appointed as vicar in Eid in 1851.^[1]

References

1. "Niels Lauritz Dahl". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 29 January 2014.
2. Haaland, Mogens (1982). Nikoline Harbitz, 1841-1898 : familiebakgrunn, liv og forfatterskap (in Norwegian). Drammen.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. "Nils Nilsøn Dahl" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 29 January 2014.