# Henrik Johan Paus

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Norwegian jurist and civil servant

Henrik Johan Paus

**Henrik Johan Paus** (3 October 1799 – 21 July 1893) was a Norwegian lawyer, government official and uncle of playwright [Henrik Ibsen](/source/Henrik_Ibsen). He was acting bailiff of [Lower Telemark](/source/Grenland) and [Bamble](/source/Bamble_Municipality) in 1818, a civil servant with the [Ministry of Finance](/source/Ministry_of_Finance_(Norway)) 1819–1823, [deputy governor](/source/County_governor_(Norway)) of [Hedemarken](/source/Hedmark) 1823–1826, sheriff of [Hof](/source/Hof_Municipality_(Hedmark)) 1826–1830, attorney-at-law and acting judge in Hedemarken 1830–1843, bailiff of [Østerdalen](/source/%C3%98sterdalen) 1843–1858 and bailiff of [Øvre Romerike](/source/%C3%98vre_Romerike) 1858–1860.

## Early life

A [silhouette](/source/Silhouette) (ca. 1820) of the Altenburg/Paus family in [Altenburggården](/source/Altenburgg%C3%A5rden), with Henrik Johan Paus as no. 2 from left; his cousin [Marichen Altenburg](/source/Marichen_Altenburg) (Henrik Ibsen's mother) to the far right. The silhouette was owned by his grandson [Christopher Tostrup Paus](/source/Christopher_de_Paus) and is the only existing portrait of either of Ibsen's parents.

Henrik Johan Paus, usually known as Henrik, was born in [Skien](/source/Skien_(town)) as the son of captain [Ole Paus](/source/Ole_Paus_(shipowner)) and Johanne Plesner. He was named for his mother's deceased first husband Henrich Johan Ibsen, and shared his name with his nephew, the playwright. He was both the half-brother of [Knud Ibsen](/source/Knud_Ibsen) and the first cousin of [Marichen Altenburg](/source/Marichen_Altenburg), Henrik Ibsen's parents, and from the age of five he grew up in [Altenburggården](/source/Altenburgg%C3%A5rden) with his cousin. During his childhood he was also close to his half-brother.[1]

## Career

He received private schooling in Skien and attended the burgher school there. In preparation for his university studies he was employed at the office of the bailiff of Lower Telemark and Bamble Bendix Plesner, his mother's cousin, in 1816. At the age of only 18 he became acting bailiff during the latter's extended absence. In 1819 he enrolled at the law faculty at the [Royal Frederick University](/source/University_of_Oslo), where he graduated in 1822. He worked for the finance ministers [Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg](/source/Herman_Wedel-Jarlsberg) og [Jonas Collett](/source/Jonas_Collett) in the Ministry of Finance until 1823, when he was appointed deputy governor of Hedemarken. He owned the large estate Østerhaug in Elverum for 25 years. Upon his retirement he returned to Skien.[2][1][3][4]

## Personal life

He was married to Sophie Lintrup, daughter of the Danish-born doctor Christian Lintrup. Among their sons were the doctor Ole Paus (1830–1897), Major Johan Altenborg Paus (1833–1894), the textile merchant in Manchester Christopher Paus (1843–1919) and the railroad engineer Tollef Lintrup Paus (f. 1843). Two of his daughters, Sofie Henriette Paus (1832–1862) and Nina Paus (1839–1866), both successively married shipowner and estate owner in Skien Hans Hoell, while his daughter Louise Paus (1835–1908) married the mayor of [Trondheim](/source/Trondheim) Christian Hulbert Hielm.

He was the grandfather of [Christopher Tostrup Paus](/source/Christopher_de_Paus), who was heir to the timber company Tostrup & Mathiesen and who was conferred the title of count by Pope Pius XI, as well as to British diplomat [Christopher Lintrup Paus](/source/Christopher_Lintrup_Paus) and road engineer [Hans Wangensten Paus](/source/Hans_Wangensten_Paus). He was the great-grandfather of Ambassador [Thorleif Lintrup Paus](/source/Thorleif_Lintrup_Paus).

Henrik Johan Paus is interred at Lie cemetery.[1] In the television series *An Immortal Man* from 2006, he was portrayed by [Eindride Eidsvold](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eindride_Eidsvold&action=edit&redlink=1).[5]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Haave_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Haave_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Haave_1-2) [Jørgen Haave](/source/J%C3%B8rgen_Haave), *Familien Ibsen*, Museumsforlaget, 2017

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Andreas Blom (1904). "[Familien Paus i Skien: Foged Henrik Johan Paus](http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2011072520001)". *Efterladte historiske optegnelser: særlig vedkommende Skien, Laardal og Kviteseid*. Skien: [s.n.] pp. 65–74.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Arvid Høgvoll, Ruth Bærland, *Henrik Ibsen: herregårder, kammerherrer, godseiere og proprietærer: brokker av en slektshistorie*, 1996

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** S.H. Finne-Grønn, "Henrik Johan Paus", in: *Norges prokuratorer, sakførere og advokater 1660–1905 : biografiske oplysninger*. Vol. 2 D. 2 : De embedsmæssig utnævnte advokater 1814–1860 og prokuratorer 1814–1848, pp. 271–272, Den norske sakførerforening, 1928

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** "[Eindride Eidsvold](https://snl.no/Eindride_Eidsvold)", *[Store norske leksikon](/source/Store_norske_leksikon)*

v t e Paus family Early members Sir Hans Olufsson (ca. 1500), cleric Sir Hans Povelsson Paus the Elder (1587), cleric Sir Peder Povelsson Paus (1590), cleric Sir Povel Hansson Paus (1620), cleric Sir Povel Pedersson Paus (1625), cleric Sir Hans Povelsson Paus (1656), cleric Cornelius Povelsson Paus (1662), judge Peder Hansson Paus (1691), judge Hans Pedersson Paus (1721), judge Skien branch Cornelius Paus (1726), civil servant Hedevig Paus (1763) Ole Paus (1766), shipowner Henrik Johan Paus (1799), lawyer Christian Cornelius Paus (1800), governor Christopher Blom Paus (1810), shipowner Henrik Ibsen (1828), playwright Johan Altenborg Paus (1834), war commissioner Ole Paus (1846), industrialist Karl L. Paus (1856), industrialist Christopher Lintrup Paus CBE (1881), British diplomat Thorleif (von) Paus (1881), diplomat George Wegner Paus (1882), lawyer Hans Wangensten Paus (1891), engineer Robert Paus Platt OBE (1905), British diplomat Helvig (von) Paus (1909) Ole (von) Paus (1910), general Per Paus (1910), industrialist Thorleif Lintrup Paus (1912), diplomat Cecilie Paus (1943), shipping magnate Peder Paus (1945), businessman Ole Paus (1947), singer Pontine Paus (1973), shipping heir Olympia Paus (1976), shipping heir Marcus Paus (1979), composer of Herresta Count Christopher (de) Paus (1862), philanthropist Herman Paus (1897), skier, estate owner Countess Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus (1914) Henrik Ibsen Knud Ibsen Marichen Altenburg Sigurd Ibsen Altenburggården The Ibsen Family Paus family in fiction Peer Gynt Rosmersholm The Wild Duck Ghosts An Enemy of the People Hedda Gabler Drammen branch Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss (1839), theologian Henriette Pauss (1841), teacher Olav Pauss (1863), shipowner Nikolai Nissen Paus (1877), surgeon/humanitarian Augustin Paus (1881), industrialist Bernhard Paus (1910), surgeon/humanitarian Vilhelm Paus (1915), diplomat Brita Collett Paus (1917), humanitarian Nikolai Paus (1944), businessman Other Pauspur Paus collection (Paus Trajan) Herresta Kvesarum Castle Villa Paus Esviken Paus & Paus Ole Paus Company Wilh. Wilhelmsen

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