About Ditlef Hvistendahl Christiansen
Lived 1865 – 1944 (aged 79). Ditlef Hvistendahl Christiansen was a Norwegian judge and jurist.
Ditlef Hvistendahl Christiansen (29 March 1865 – 1 July 1944) was a Norwegian Supreme Court Justice.
He was born in Tønsberg as a son of Mathilde Georgine Hvistendahl (1834–1911) and ship-owner Johan Henrik Christiansen (1823–1904). He was a brother of barrister Johan Henrik Christiansen. In 1898 he married physician's daughter Antonette Zimmer. Their son Hans Zimmer Christiansen became district manager in the Norwegian State Railways.
He finished his secondary education in 1883, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University in 1888 with a cand.jur. degree. He was hired as a civil servant in the Ministry of Labour in 1894 and moved to the Ministry of Justice in 1898. He was an Assessor in Oslo City Court from 1900, and then a Supreme Court Justice from 1911
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Norwegian judge and jurist
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Ditlef Hvistendahl Christiansen was born on 29 March 1865.
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Ditlef Hvistendahl Christiansen died on 1 July 1944.
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