Zacharias Møller

Var proprietær og cand.theol. Han giftet seg med Karen Gude som var enke etter Hans Angell Gude.

Præceptor (Teacher) Zacharias Møller (1779-1861) Aristocratic landowner of Thorsoe Manor. Graduated in theology. Married Karen Gude who was the widow of Hans Angell Gude.

"Anne-Lise Seip Mar 18 2015

Dear Charlotte Lumae, Iorry to have kept you waiting for an answer. I am also sorry that I have not been able to find much information which will be new to you. But here is what I have found.

Zacharias Møller was born 1779, and came to Norway as teacher in 1799. He married Karen Resch Gude, who was a widow after Hans Gude, owner of Thorsø manor near Fredrikstad. Among the children in the new marriage was Maren Isidora Christiane Møller, who married Philip Jacob Johannes Sissenere. She used the name Sissenere Møller. Why I don't know. Their daughter Karen married Johan Ernst Welhaven.

Johan Sebastian Welhaven met Zacharias Møller in the home of his friend Peter Andreas Munch, the great historian. Møller and Edvard Munch, priest, were friends. Wehaven, who had lost his beloved father, attached himself to the 30 years older man, and they became great friends. Møller was a learned theologien, had collected a fine library, and Welhaven visited him often at Thorsø. When he lost his beloved Ida in 1840, he was not able to attend the funeral, but took refuge at Thorsø and his friend.

I think you will be able yourself to go further into the family history simply starting by looking up the persons on Google.

The Welhaven family is still around, as well as Sissenere, so you may contact them. I have asked one of my younger colleagues, Camilla Serck-Hansen, professor in philosophy at the university of Oslo, and a grand-child of Hjalmar Welhaven, brother of Johan Ernst, if she had any information, but the answer was negative. But there may be other family members interested in their history around. Maybe you already have been in contact with some of them?

All the best and good luck, yours sincerely Anne-Lise Seip"

Theolian Moller was a scholar, quietly gathering and searching. Upon his lonely farm he created a library, one of the most valuable in the country. The old main building's fire some years ago reduced most of it to ash. But even vidneren collection of llere hundred engravings and steel plugs and a number of manuscripts, partly translations, partly originalarbeider whether his pronounced sense of art and scientific pursuits. In the family by yet much to tell about his diligence and curiosity of inquiry. But also about his hatred of all coercion and all philistinism and about his love for the young romanticism ideas. As educator, he followed the maxim that one should teach children to love nature and otherwise wait to give them skills to even asked for them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thors%C3%B8,_Norway Thorsø or Tose is a farm located in the former municipality of Torsnes (until 1910 part of Borge) in Østfold county, Norway. The first written source found about this farm is from 1472, in the form of Tosowe. This is one of three placenames in Østfold that are believed to derive from Old Norse Þórshof and thus indicate an old location for worshipping the Norse god Thor, a temple or "hof".[1][2] Jan de Vries pointed out in his work on Germanic religion that although instances of placenames derived from Þórshof are fairly common in Norway, they are all grouped around the Oslofjord.[3]

As of 1998, the property consisted of 1,360 hectares (3,400 acres) of land, 108.6 hectares (268 acres) under cultivation and 650 hectares (1,600 acres) woodland.[4] The main house dates to 1900, replacing one destroyed by fire in 1899.[4]

Archaeological discoveries on the farm indicate that settlement there dates back to ancient times and include stone axes and two 12th-century runestones.[5][6][7][8] The first known owner of the property was Alv Haraldsson (Bolt) (d. 1412). Under Oluf Kalips it became an aristocratic estate, and it has since belonged to the Rosenvinge, Bildt, Budde, Sehested and Stang families.[4]

Prominent owners of the Thorsø estate have included war minister Hans Angell Gude, who disappeared from the house mysteriously in the autumn of 1814, thought to have been murdered,[4][5] and the Norwegian politician and agronomist Kai Møller.[4] Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson wrote his Sigurd Jorsalfar while staying there in 1872.[5]

The estate is the "Lindeby" of a trilogy of historical novels by Ingeborg Møller, whose father's family owned the property: Vårfrost (1931), Lindeby (1933), and Runestenene (1934).[9][10]

https://snl.no/Thorsø About Thorsoe Manor: Tose, mansion in Fredrikstad (f. Borge) municipality, Østfold, by Tosekilen 13 km ESE of the city center. The property with adjacent islands include (1998) a total area of ​​13,600 ha, of which 1086 ha of farmland and 6,500 ha forest. The original name Þórshof suggests that there has been a need where hallowed god Thor. Thorsøe first known owner was Alf Haraldsson (Bolt) (died 1412). During a later owner, Oluf Kalips was Thorsø noble seat courtyard and belonged later including genera Rosenvinge, Bildt, Budde, Sehested and Stang.

Over War Commissioner Hans Angell Gude (1771-1814) became the owner of the farm 1811. In autumn 1814, when Swedish hussars were accommodated on Thorsø disappeared Gude under mysterious circumstances. The disappearance has never been solved. His widow married præceptor Zacharias Mills (1779-1861). Their son Kai Bisgaard Moller owned Thorsø from 1885, and the farm was passed down to his daughter Tove Mohr . Current owner (from 1987) is her son Gustav Mohr.

The main building is listed in 1900 after the old one was destroyed by fire in 1899.