Ole Gabriel Gabrielson Ueland

Ole Gabriel Gabrielson Ueland (born Oct. 28, 1799, Lund, Nor.—died Jan. 9, 1870, Christiania, now Oslo) was a teacher and politician, the foremost champion of Norway’s peasant class during the middle of the 19th century. A schoolteacher when first elected to the Storting (national parliament) in 1833, Ueland became the chief spokesman of Norway’s peasantry in that body for the next three decades. He championed such causes as local self-government, amelioration of the living and...