Parson Jens Stub, Eidsvollsmann

Jens Stub, Norwegian priest and politician.

He was the son of district stipendiary magistrate (sorenskriver) Johan Daniel Stub (1736–1802) and grandson of Lauritz Stub (1708-1774), both of whom served as judges in Bergen. His 5th great grandfather was His Excellency Nils Stub (?-1580), the Chancellor of Norway. Descendants of Nils Stub are considered noble through male-line at birth by rank nobility (rangadel) in the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway and the Duchy of Schleswig and Holstein.

He grew up in Eid in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. His brother was Gerhard Heiberg Stub (1781-1831), a merchant in Bergen. In August 1793 he married his cousin Gjertrud Helene Heiberg (1774–1852) in Talvik.

Jens Stub was a priest by education. He earned his degree in theology (Cand.theol.) in 1788. He was a Church of Norway priest in Alta to 1801 he was vicar on the island of Veøy in Romsdalsfjord.

Stub was a member of the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814 at which time he worked as dean in Romsdals Amt. He died in a boat accident in 1819 in Tresfjord.

Sources

• English Wikipedia: Jens Stub
• Norsk biografisk leksikon: Jens Stub
• Norsk biografisk leksikon: Eidsvoll 1814
• kunsthistorie.com: Skrivergården Løken (Leikvin)