Ebbe Hertzberg

Ebbe Carsten Hornemann Hertzberg (11 April 1847 – 2 October 1912) was a Norwegian professor and social economist. He was also a legal historian and published several works in that field.

Biography Hertzberg was born at Holmestrand in Vestfold, Norway. He was the son of Johan Christian Linde Hertzberg (1816–1884) and Inger Horneman (1820–1895). He attended the University of Christiania (now University of Oslo). In 1868, he was awarded the Crown Prince's gold medal (Kronprinsens gullmedalje) for a thesis regarding changes in Norwegian judicial institutions. He graduated as cand.jur. in 1870. He earned a travel scholarship and studied at Uppsala University from 1870. From 1872 to 1873, he studied under legal historian Konrad Maurer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

He was appointed professor of statistics and economics at the University of Christiania in 1877. He was a short-time government minister from April to June in 1884 as a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm.

In 1886, Hertzberg withdrew from public life and moved away from Kristiania for a decade. Officially, this was motivated by a desire to focus on his research, but in reality he had been pushed to resign by the university after admitting to being homosexual.

In 1902, Ebbe Hertzbergs was the anonymous author of the essay "Traces of Contrary Sexuality among the Ancient Scandinavians" in Magnus Hirschfeld's German-speaking Yearbook for Sexual Intermediates (Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen).

Selected works Grundtrækkene i den ældste norske proces (1874) Om kreditens begreb og væsen (1877) Glossarium til Norges gamle love (1895)