Herman, Count Wedel-Jarlsberg

Herman, Count Wedel-Jarlsberg (born Sept. 2, 1779, Montpellier, Fr.—died Aug. 27, 1840, Christiania, Nor.) was a Norwegian patriot and statesman. He was the leading advocate of Norwegian-Swedish union in the last years of the Danish-Norwegian state and the first Norwegian governor (statholder) in the Norwegian-Swedish union (1814–1905). Early in the 19th century, as the Danish-Norwegian state was disintegrating under the strains of the Napoleonic Wars, Wedel-Jarlsberg served with distinction on a special Norwegian commission set...