List of County Governors of Oslo
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This is a list of the County Governors (Fylkesmenn) of Oslo
, Norway
. Oslo was named Christiania and Kristiania throughout this entire period.
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. Oslo was named Christiania and Kristiania throughout this entire period.
| County Governors of Kristiania | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Name | Born | Died |
| 1815 | 1842 | Shared governors with Akershus | - | |
| 1842 | 1845 | Fredrik Riis Fredrik Riis Fredrik Riis was a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Christiania, enrolled as a student in 1806 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1809... |
1789 | 1845 |
| 1846 | 1857 | Niels Arntzen Sem Niels Arntzen Sem Niels Arntzen Sem was a Norwegian politician.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1825 and 1827, representing the constituency of Stavanger Amt. He worked as district stipendiary magistrate there.... |
1782 | 1859 |
| 1857 | 1874 | Karelius August Arntzen Karelius August Arntzen Karelius August Arntzen was a Norwegian politician.He was born in Copenhagen, where his father Andreas Arntzen took his jurist education. He moved to his father's home country Norway in 1821, and graduated as cand.jur. in 1827... |
1802 | 1875 |
| 1874 | 1880 | August Christian Manthey August Christian Manthey August Christian Manthey was a Norwegian Minister who held several government posts in the period 1856-1875. He served as Minister of Auditing, Justice, Finance, the Interior, the Navy and the Army, as well as being member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm in different... |
1811 | 1880 |
| 1880 | 1905 | Nils Mathias Rye | 1824 | 1905 |
| 1905 | 1917 | Otto Albert Blehr | 1847 | 1927 |
| 1917 | – | Shared governors with Akershus | - | |