Norwegian Society

The Norwegian Society was formed in 1772 by Ove Gjerløw Meyer.

[1][2][3] It was a gentlemen's club, with the exception of the waitress Karen Bach and the poet Magdalene Sophie Buchholm,[4] and the meetings were lively with speakers, song and discussion, poetry recitation improvisations and relatively significant intakes of punch.

The club considered itself culturally conservative and devoted to the rationalistic empirical style of Ludvig Holberg.

The society was discontinued in 1813 after the battle was won to establish the first Norwegian university, but a new gentlemen's club with the same name started in 1818.

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An Evening at the Norwegian Society (1892 painting): Johan Herman Wessel (center, glass raised); Johan Nordahl Brun (in red jacket); the hostess, Madam Juehl (behind Wessel).