Ferdinand Roll

Ferdinand Nicolai Roll

Ferdinand Nicolai Roll (born 28 May 1831 in Trondheim; † 27 February 1921 in Vestre Aker^[1]) was a Norwegian jurist and politician of the conservative party Høyre. He was a member of the Storting and Norwegian Minister of Justice.

Life

Roll’s parents were the judge and politician Jacob Roll and his third wife Nicoline Selmer.^[2] The engineer Oluf Nicolai Roll was his half-brother, the priest Karl Jacob Roll his brother.^[3] Like his father, Ferdinand Roll underwent a legal education. In 1847 he enrolled at the university and graduated in 1852 as candidatus juris cum laude.^[2][4]

In 1870 he was appointed Sorenskriver of Romsdal, based in Molde.^[2] While holding this office he was elected to the Storting in 1877, representing Ålesund and Molde. In 1880 and 1883 he was re-elected.^[5]

When the Cabinet was formed in 1889, Roll became part of the executive branch. In Emil Stang’s first cabinet, he was appointed Minister of Justice on 13 July. Less than a year later, on 30 June 1890, he resigned the post and moved to the Norwegian Council of State in Stockholm. This post he held until 5 March 1891.^[5] In 1892 he was again elected to the Storting for one term.^[5] After leaving parliament in 1895, he was a full judge of the Supreme Court until his death, having previously been an associate judge there.^[1]

Roll and his second wife Sophie Nicoline Knudtzon were the parents of feminist writer Nini Roll Anker.^[6]

Individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b} Paul Thyness Ferdinand Roll. Article from the Norsk biografisk leksikon.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Christian Thaulow Personalhistorie for Trondhjems by og omegn i et tidsrum af circa 1 1/2 aarhundrede.
3. ↑ J. B. Halvorsen: Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon 1814-1880: paa Grundlag af J.E. Krafts og Chr. Lange’s “Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon 1814-1856”. 4 : M-R, p. 588f.
4. ↑ Ferdinand Nicolai Roll in J. B. Halvorsen: Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon 1814-1880 : paa Grundlag af J.E. Krafts og Chr. Lange’s “Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon 1814-1856”. 4 : M-R, p. 585f.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Ferdinand Nicolai Roll – Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD).
6. ↑ Irene Iversen Nini Roll Anchor. Article from the Norsk biografisk leksikon.