Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen (November 19 1744 - February 13 1802) was chief justice of the Supreme Court (Da. Højesteret, Nor. Høyesterett) of Denmark-Norway in the capital of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

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Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen was born in Sørum

Sørum

Sørum is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sørumsand. Sørum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838...

, Akershus

Akershus

- Geography :The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum...

, in the traditional region of Romerike

Romerike

Romerike is a traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. It consists of the Akershus municipalities Fet, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Rælingen, Skedsmo, Sørum and Aurskog-Høland in the southern end , and Ullensaker, Gjerdrum, Nannestad, Nes, Eidsvoll and Hurdal...

, 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...

. His parents were Colbjørn Colbjørnsen Jacobsen (1714-1761) and Anna Dorothea Røring (1710-1772). Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, along with his brothers, Edvard Røring Colbjørnsen (1751–1792), Christian Colbjørnsen

Christian Colbjørnsen

Christian Colbjørnsen served as the Chief Justice of Denmark-Norway from 1802 until 1814.-Background:...

 attended the Christiania Cathedral School.

He served as the chief justice from 1799 until his death. He died in 1802 and his brother, Christian Colbjørnsen

Christian Colbjørnsen

Christian Colbjørnsen served as the Chief Justice of Denmark-Norway from 1802 until 1814.-Background:...

 was chief justice of Denmark-Norway until 1814.

Jakob Colbjørnsen was one of the founding members of The Norwegian Society

The Norwegian Society

The Norwegian Society was a literary society for Norwegian students in Copenhagen. Its members included authors, poets and philosophers. The Norwegian Society was formed in 1772 by Ove Gjerløw Meyer...

(Det Norske Selskab).