1736 - 1801
Jacob Nicolai Wilse Writer
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| Birthday |
24th January, 1736
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| Birthplace |
Lemvig, Denmark
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| Died |
23rd May, 1801
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| Place of Death |
Eidsberg, Norway
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius
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| Occupation Text |
Priest, meteorologist
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| Occupation |
Writer
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| Year(s) Active |
65, 1768–1801
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Jacob Nicolai Wilse (January 24, 1736 – May 23, 1801) was a parish priest in Spydeberg and Eidsberg, Norway. He was born in Lemvig, Denmark and is known for writing topographic works with extensive descriptions of travel in Norway in the 1790s. Wilse is considered Østfold county's first significant cultural researcher and one of the fathers of Norwegian village history. His friend Hans Strøm also wrote topographical works for Sunnmøre and Eiker. Like Strøm, Wilse authored one of the first descriptions of the relationship between nature and human activity. He was also an Enlightenment-era philosopher, a so-called "potato priest" (Norwegian: potetprest). Wilse was an early supporter of Norway having its own university, and he also envisioned a women's university.
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