Bernhard Dunker

Bernhard Dunker (22 May 1809 – 28 July 1870) was a Norwegian jurist, barrister and Attorney General of Norway.

Personal life Dunker was born in the Duchy of Schleswig in Southern Jutland to Conradine Birgitte Hansteen and Johan Friedrich Wilhelm Dunker, and came to Norway when he was one year old. He was a brother of Vilhelmine Ullmann, and nephew of astronomer Christopher Hansteen. He married Edle Jasine Theodore Grundt in 1839, and among their children was writer and feminist Mathilde Schjøtt. He was uncle of politician and feminist Ragna Nielsen and educator and politician Viggo Ullmann, grandfather of architect Jens Gram Dunker, and father-in-law of philologist and politician Peter Olrog Schjøtt. He chaired the board of Christiania Theatre from 1860 to 1863, and again from 1865 to 1866.

In literature The barrister "Berent" in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's play En Fallit is modelled after Dunker, and Bjørnson also wrote the poem "Til Regjeringsadvokat Dunker" dedicated to him.