Right Reverend

Mathias Sigwardt
Bishop of Christianssand
ChurchChurch of Norway
DioceseDiocese of Christianssand
Appointed1832
In office1832–1840
PredecessorJohan Storm Munch
SuccessorJacob von der Lippe
Personal details
Born(1770-10-20)20 October 1770
Borre, Norway
Died8 October 1840(1840-10-08) (aged 69)
Christianssand, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
DenominationChristian
ParentsSøren Sigwardt and
Ulrikke Leonore Weinwich
OccupationPriest

Mathias Sigwardt (20 October 1770–8 October 1840) was priest and Bishop of the Church of Norway.

Sigwardt was born in Borre in Vestfold county, Norway. He was the son of vicar Søren Sigwardt (1729–1792) and his first wife Ulrikke Leonore, née Weinwich. He took his primary and secondary education under the tutoring of his father until he was 18 when he went to a school in Christiania where Herman Amberg taught him. Sigwardt enrolled as a student in 1791, and graduated with the cand.theol. degree in 1795.[1]

Career

In 1796, Sigwardt became a curate in Vaale in Vestfold working under the parish priest Frants Philip Hopstock (whose daughter he married in 1798). In 1799, he became a chaplain and inspector at the teacher's seminary in Tønsberg in Vestfold county. In 1804, he moved to Christiania to become the vicar for the Christiania Hospital and the Christiania Tugthus (prison). In 1816, he became the parish priest for Tune in Østfold county. In 1820, he was promoted to be the Dean for the Diocese of Christiania. Starting in 1825 he was working for the Court of the Royal Family. In 1832, he was appointed as the Bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand. He got sick during a trip to Mandal in 1839, and he died in Christianssand on 8 October 1840.[1]

Personal life

In 1798, he married Louise Juliane Catharine Hopstock, a daughter of the priest F. Hopstock. She died in November 1815, and in 1822 Sigwardt married the widow of Nicolai Lumholtz, Karine Lumholtz.[1] Through his daughter Ulrike Eleonore, Mathias Sigwardt was a grandfather of physician Mathias Sigwardt Greve and great-grandfather of the architect Bredo Greve and the weaver Ulrikke Greve.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Thrap, D. (1901). "Sigwardt, Matthias". In Bricka, Carl Frederik (ed.). Dansk biografisk lexikon (in Danish). Vol. 15. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag. pp. 587–588. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  2. ^ Gade, F. G. (1929). "Greve, Mathias Sigwardt". In Bull, Edvard; Jansen, Einar (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 4 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 590–592.
Religious titles Preceded byJohan Storm Munch Bishop of Christianssand 1832–1840 Succeeded byJacob von der Lippe
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