Christian Krohg (government minister)

Christian Krohg (15 January 1777 – 10 November 1828) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician.

[1] Krohg was the head of the recently-established parliament's constitutional committee in 1824 when it rebuked attempts by the king of Sweden-Norway to expand the king's constitutional powers,[2] for which he was widely celebrated among the public.

[1][3] After his death, a memorial to Christian Krohg was inaugurated in Oslo on the 17th of May, 1833 with an accompanying speech by Henrik Wergeland.

The Krohg memorial would remain a focal point of Constitution Day celebrations until the 1860s.

[6] Krohg also served as praeses of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1820 to his death.