{{short description|Norwegian jurist and politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Christian Cornelius Paus | honorific_suffix = | image = Christian C Paus2.jpg | alt = | caption = | constituency_MP = Lister and Mandal | parliament = Norway | majority = | term_start = 1848 | term_end = 1850 | predecessor = | constituency_MP2 = [[Skien (town)|Skien]] | parliament2 = Norway | majority2 = | term_start2 = 1857 | term_end2 = 1861 | successor2 = | birth_date = 18 October 1800 | birth_place = [[Skien (town)|Skien]], [[Telemark]], [[Denmark-Norway]] | death_date = 8 April 1879 | death_place = Skien, Telemark, [[Sweden-Norway]] | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | birth_name = | party = | other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> | spouse = | partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> | father = [[Ole Paus (shipowner)|Ole Paus]] | relations = [[Knud Ibsen]] (half-brother), [[Henrik Ibsen]] (half-nephew) | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Lawyer, judge and civil servant | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | blank1 = | data1 = | blank2 = | data2 = | blank3 = | data3 = | blank4 = | data4 = | blank5 = | data5 = }}
'''Christian Cornelius Paus''' (18 October 1800 – 8 April 1879) was a Norwegian lawyer, civil servant and politician. From 1847 to 1874 he served as the top civil servant of [[Skien (town)|Skien]] as city judge, magistrate, chief of police and [[Recorder of deeds|city recorder]]. He also served three times as Governor of Bratsberg (now [[Telemark]] county) between 1862 and 1869 and three terms as a Member of the [[Stortinget|Norwegian Parliament]] between 1848 and 1861.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ibsen.uio.no/REGINFO_peCPa.xhtml |title=Christian [Cornelius] Paus |publisher=Henrik Ibsens skrifter |accessdate=June 15, 2016}}</ref> He was the uncle of playwright [[Henrik Ibsen]] and the inspiration for the character of Peter Stockmann in the play ''[[An Enemy of the People]]''.
==Background== He was born at [[Skien (town)|Skien]] in [[Telemark|Bratsberg]] county, Norway, a member of the [[Paus family]]. He was the son of ship-owner [[Ole Paus (shipowner)|Ole Paus]] and Johanne Plesner (in her first marriage married Ibsen), and was the uncle of playwright [[Henrik Ibsen]]. He was both the half-brother of Henrik Ibsen's father, [[Knud Ibsen]], and the first cousin of Henrik Ibsen's mother, Marichen Altenburg.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://snl.no/Paus |title=Paus |publisher= Store norske leksikon |author=Jon Gunnar Arntzen |accessdate=2016-06-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://snl.no/Ole_Paus |title=Ole Paus |publisher=Store norske leksikon |author=Jon Vidar Bergan |accessdate=2016-06-15}}</ref>
==Career== ===Career in the civil service=== Paus obtained the [[cand. jur.]] degree in 1825. He was employed in the Norwegian central government at the [[Minister of the Navy and Postal Affairs|Ministry of the Navy]] from 1822 to 1836, as a senior adviser from 1826. He was bailiff in [[Lista Municipality|Lista]] in [[Vest-Agder|Lister og Mandal]] county from 1836 until he was appointed as city judge ({{Lang|no|[[Byfoged|byfogd]]}}) in Skien in 1847. In that capacity, he also held the offices of magistrate ({{Lang|no|magistrat}}), chief of police ({{Lang|no|politimester}}) and [[Recorder of deeds|city recorder]] ({{Lang|no|byskriver}}), thus making him the main representative of the state in the city. He held all four offices until 1874. He was [[County governor (Norway)|governor]] of [[Telemark|Bratsberg]] three times (1862–1863, 1864 and 1868–1869), during the absences of [[Hans J. C. Aall]].<ref>Lindstøl, Tallak: Stortinget og Statsraadet 1814-1914. Kristiania</ref>
===Member of Parliament=== He served three terms as a Member of [[Stortinget|Norwegian Parliament]] between 1848 and 1861. He was a member of the [[Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs|Committee on Finance]] in 1858 and of the [[Lagting (Norway)|Lagting]] from 1857 to 1860.
==Personal life== He was the owner of the manor at Rising in [[Gjerpen Municipality]] (''Rising i Gjerpen''), which he inherited from his father. In 1845 he married Edvarda Margrethe Qvale (1807–1880) from [[Vega Municipality]], a daughter of parish priest Andreas Qvale (1779–1820). She was the widow of the physician Lauritz Johannes Irgens (1807–1837), himself a son of the politician [[Lars Johannes Irgens]] and a brother of the Minister of the Navy [[Nils Christian Irgens]]. Christian and Edvarda had one daughter, Edvarda Margrethe Paus (1847–1903), who was married from 1870 to the military physician Jørgen Magnus Grønn (1843–1914).
==Honours== *Knight of the [[Order of St. Olav]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dokpro.uio.no/cgi-bin/stad/matr50 |title=Rising. Gjerpen herad. Telemark |publisher=Matrikkelutkastet av 1950 |accessdate=2016-06-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://runeberg.org/nfbg/0788.html |title=Nordisk familjebok |publisher=Faye, Frants Kristian |date=1907 |access-date=2016-06-15}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Paus family}} {{Henrik Ibsen's family}} {{authority control}}
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