Mathias Sigwardt
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Mathias Sigwardt was a Norwegian bishop.

He was born in Borre
Borre, Norway
Borre is a village in the municipality of Horten, Vestfold county, Norway. The village of Borre had provided the name of the former Borre municipality .-History:...

 as a son of vicar Søren Sigwardt (1729–1792) and his first wife Ulrikke Leonore, née Weinwich. He took his primary and secondary education under his father as well as teacher in Christiania
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...

 Herman Amberg
Herman Amberg (educator)
Herman Amberg was a Danish-Norwegian educator.He was born in Elsinore as a son of goldsmith Lars Amberg, a Norwegian immigrant to Denmark. He was a brother of lexicographer Hans Christian Amberg. Herman Amberg was hired at Christiania Cathedral School in 1782, and became headmaster in 1799...

. Sigwardt enrolled as a student in 1791, and graduated with the cand.theol.
Cand.theol.
Candidatus theologiæ , Candidata theologiæ , abbreviated cand. theol. is an academic degree with a long tradition, awarded after a six year higher education in theology in Denmark and Norway. In Norway, the title has remained after the "Quality Reform", though it is equivalent to a Master of...

 degree in 1795.

He became a curate in Vaale
Våle
Våle is a village in Re municipality, and former municipality, in Vestfold county, Norway. Våle is a rural, agricultural area, with Kirkevoll/Brekkeåsen, Rånerudåsen, Svinevoll, Sørby and Gretteåsen as more dense housing areas. The administrative centre was Sørby.The parish of Vaale was...

 under Frants Philip Hopstock
Frants Philip Hopstock
Frants Philip Hopstock was a Norwegian priest.He was born in Kongsberg as a son of forester Andreas Hopstock and his wife Maren, née Hoffmann Krogh. He took his secondary education in Bergen, enrolled as a student in 1764 and graduated with the cand.theol. degree in 1772. He was a vicar in Skovger...

 in 1796, and in 1799 he became teacher as well as inspector at the teacher's seminary in Tønsberg
Tønsberg
is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around north-east of Sandefjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tønsberg....

. He became vicar at Oslo Hospital and Christiania Tugthus in 1804, vicar in Tune
Tune, Norway
Tune is a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The former municipality originally covered the current Sarpsborg municipality with the exception of Skjeberg and with the addition of Rolvsøy.-History:...

 and dean
Dean (religion)
A dean, in a church context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy. The title is used mainly in the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church.-Anglican Communion:...

 in the Diocese of Christiania
Diocese of Oslo
Oslo bishopric is The Church of Norway's bishopric for the municipalities of Oslo, Asker and Bærum. It is one of Norway's five traditional bishoprics and was founded around the year 1070.-History:...

 in 1820. From 1825 he was connected to the Court of the Royal Family, and in 1832 he was appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand. He caught a disease during a trip to Mandal in 1839, and died in October 1840.

In 1798 he married Louise Juliane Catharine Hopstock, a daughter of F. Hopstock. She died in November 1815, and in 1822 Sigwardt married the widow of Nicolai Lumholtz
Nicolai Lumholtz
Nicolai Lumholtz was a Danish-Norwegian bishop.He was born in Copenhagen as a son of controller Niels Lumholtz . He became a catechist in Nicolai's Church in Copenhagen in 1757, curate in Frederiksborg and hospital priest in Hillerød in 1770, curate in Nicolai's Church in 1772 and dean in the...

, Karine Lumholtz. Through his daughter Ulrike Eleonore, Mathias Sigwardt was a grandfather of pyhsician Mathias Sigwardt Greve
Mathias Sigwardt Greve
Mathias Sigwardt Greve was a Norwegian physician, best known as the director of Rikshospitalet from 1883 to 1911.-Personal life:...

 and great-grandfather of architect Bredo Greve and weaver Ulrikke Greve.
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