Jonas Anton Hielm

Jonas Anton Hielm (born Dec. 30, 1782, Kristiansand, Nor.—died March 30, 1848, Christiania [now Oslo]) was a political leader who defended Norway’s position within the Swedish-Norwegian union and led an early attempt to form a national reform party with peasant and liberal urban support. Hielm was elected to the Storting (parliament) in 1830. As part of his effort to forge a political party from urban and peasant elements, he aided in writing a political tract,...