Hans Christian Steffensen (22 December 1837 – 4 September 1912) was a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 politician, jurist and speaker of the Landsting

Landsting (Denmark)

The Landsting was a house of the Rigsdag in Denmark from 1849 until 1953, when the bicameral system was abolished. The house had powers equal to the Folketing, which made the two houses of parliament hard to distinguish....

, a chamber of the parliament

Rigsdag

Rigsdagen was the name of the Parliament of Denmark from 1849 to 1953.Rigsdagen was Denmark's first parliament, and it was incorporated in the Constitution of 1849. It was a bicameral legislature, consisting of two houses, the Folketing and the Landsting. The distinction between the two houses was...

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He was an elected member of the Folketing

Folketing

The Folketing , is the national parliament of Denmark. The name literally means "People's thing"—that is, the people's governing assembly. It is located in Christiansborg Palace, on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen....

 from 1879 to 1881 and a royally appointed member of the Landsting from 1888, representing the conservative party Højre

Højre

Højre was the name of two Danish political parties of Conservative persuasion.The first Højre party existed from 1848 to 1866....

 until 1900 when he was one of nine Højre-members of the Landsting who left the party in a protest against the government's duty and tax reforms and formed the conservative group De Frikonservative in 1902.

Steffensen was Højre's spokesman on the extensive 1895 reform of the order of business of the Landsting, and he was speaker of the Landsting from 1907 to 1909.