Anton Martin Schweigaard

The following year, the Norwegian Parliament gave him a scholarship to study abroad in Germany and France.

He advocated that the state had an important and necessary role to play in economic life.

He is widely credited in helping bring about Norway's change to a capitalist economy.

Schweigaard figures prominently the theory of Nordic legal pragmatism advanced by Sverre Blandhol, along with Anders Sandøe Ørsted and Friedrich Carl von Savigny.

His strong belief in the country's economic capabilities made him the leading spokesman in Parliament for construction of railways and development of mail and telegraph services.