[1] In February 1800 in Copenhagen, he married pharmacist's daughter Justine Marie Agnete Bruun (1780–1838).

They had the grandchildren Henrik, Jakob and Emanuel Mohn and Kristofer Janson.

[1] He studied under Christian Kølle at Snarøya from 1781 to 1785 and in Elsinore from 1785 to 1787, before enrolling at the University of Copenhagen, where he graduated in 1796 with the cand.theol.

degree in church history in 1799 on the thesis Historia primatus Lundensis.

[1] He was elected to the first session of the Parliament of Norway in 1814, representing Agershus Amt.