Frederik Schmidt

Frederik Schmidt (27 May 1771 – 16 February 1840) was a Danish-Norwegian priest, politician, doctor of theology, poet and diarist.

He supported Crown Prince Christian Frederick of Denmark-Norway and his endeavor to become the new ruler of Norway.

This initiative led to Norway's first Impeachment case, against Lieutenant General Fredrik Gottschalk von Haxthausen.

[1][2] Schmidt took this initiative has he had been elected to the first session of the Parliament of Norway, representing the constituency of Buskeruds Amt.

After 1814, Schmidt moved back to his birth country of Denmark in resentment over the union with Sweden, but probably also in frustration that he did not become the Bishop of Bergen.

[3] He was also one of the co-founders of the Royal Norwegian Society of Development (Det Kongelige Selskap for Norges Velin) 1809.