Halvor Hoel

Norwegian politician
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Born:
Feb. 4, 1766, Hedmark province, Nor.
Died:
March 5, 1852, Hedmark (aged 86)

Halvor Hoel (born Feb. 4, 1766, Hedmark province, Nor.—died March 5, 1852, Hedmark) was a peasant agitator who influenced peasant opinion against Norway’s early 19th-century political leaders. A member of a wealthy peasant family, Hoel opposed the upper-class, urban-dominated parliamentary government established in Norway in 1814; particularly, he attacked its fiscal policies, which he characterized as inimical to peasant interests. On the other hand, he exhibited the traditional peasant tolerance of royalism and favoured a strengthening of the role of the Swedish-Norwegian monarch. Hoel was elected to the Storting (parliament) in 1815 but was denied his seat because he had ...(100 of 190 words)