Jakob Neumann Mohn was a Norwegian

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...

 statistician

Statistician

A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...

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Personal life

He was born in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

 as a son of Albert Henrik Mohn (1811–1894) and Ida Neumann (1814–1864). Originally named Jacob, he changed the spelling. He was a brother of Henrik

Henrik Mohn

Henrik Mohn was a Norwegian astronomer and meteorologist. Although he enrolled in theology studies after finishing school, he is credited with founding meteorological research in Norway, being a professor at the Royal Frederick University and director of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute from...

 and Emanuel Mohn

Emanuel Mohn

Emanuel Meyer Mohn was a Norwegian educator, known for writing about and illustrating mountains in Norway.He was born in Bergen to Albert Henrik Mohn and Ida Neumann . He was a brother of Henrik and Jakob Mohn, and on the maternal side he was a grandson of bishop Jacob Neumann. He did not marry...

. On the maternal side, he was a grandson of bishop Jacob Neumann

Jacob Neumann

-Personal life:He was born in Strømsø as a son of Hans Neumann and Annechen Johanne Blom , and a grandson of Jakob Hansen Neumann. He was also a first cousin of Gustav Peter Blom and Gustava Kielland and a second cousin of Christian Blom....

. In July 1866 he married Valeria Paasche (1843–1912). He was a granduncle of Frank and Albert Henrik Mohn

Albert Henrik Mohn

Albert Henrik Mohn was a Norwegian journalist and correspondent.He was born in Bergen as a son of ship-owner and captain Sigurd Mohn and Margrete Oettinger . He was a brother of Frank Mohn and a grandnephew of Jakob, Henrik and Emanuel Mohn. He finished middle school in 1933 and commerce school...

, and since his daughter Hanna married physician and politician Nils Yngvar Ustvedt

Nils Yngvar Ustvedt

Nils Yngvar Ustvedt was a Norwegian medical doctor and politician for the Conservative Party. He worked as chief physician at Ullevål Hospital from 1916 to 1935, and before this he served one term in the Norwegian Parliament....

, Mohn was a grandfather of Hans Jacob Ustvedt

Hans Jacob Ustvedt

Hans Jacob Neumann Ustvedt was a Norwegian medical doctor and broadcasting administrator. He was a driving force of the doctors' resistance during the World War II, had to flee to Sweden in 1942, and was leading the medical office at the Norwegian legation in Stockholm...

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Career

He finished

Examen artium

Examen artium was the name of the academic certification conferred in Denmark and Norway, qualifying the student for admission to university studies. Examen artium was originally introduced as the entrance exam of the University of Copenhagen in 1630...

 his secondary education at Bergen Cathedral School in 1855, and graduated from the Royal Fredercik University

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 with the cand.jur. degree already in 1859. He was soon hired in the Statistics Office, and together with Anders Nicolai Kiær

Anders Nicolai Kiær

Anders Nicolai Kiær was a Norwegian statistician who first proposed that a representative sample rather than a complete enumerating survey could and used should be used to collect information about a population....

 he led its transition into an independent research directorate, renamed Det statistiske Centralbureau

Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway is the Norwegian statistics bureau. It was established in 1876.Relying on a staff of about 1,000, Statistics Norway publish about 1,000 new statistical releases every year on its web site. All releases are published both in Norwegian and English...

 in 1876. Norway as a country implemented the use of large, quantitative statistics in politics quite early. The initiator was the priest and researcher Eilert Sundt

Eilert Sundt

Eilert Sundt was a Norwegian sociologist, known for his work on mortality, marriage and other subjects among the working class....

, and Mohn. Mohn was also involved in the workers' society Christiania Arbeidersamfund, and through his research on child labour among other things, he capacitated social reform. His last work was Norges Land og Folk, requisitioned by the Norwegian Parliament in 1874, and meant to be a grand reference work. However, he never finished a single volume, as he died in February 1882 in Kristiania

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...

. His work was carried on by Anders Nicolai Kiær and Boye Strøm

Boye Strøm

Boye Christian Riis Strøm was a Norwegian statistician and civil servant.He was born in Grue, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1870. He was the director of Statistics Norway from 1882 to 1886, and published the yearbook Statistisk aarbog for Kongeriget Norge. From 1889 to 1915 he served...

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