Nils L. Landmark

Nils L. Landmark (11 March 1775 – 29 October 1859) was a Norwegian jurist, farmer and politician.

Personal life He was born in Christiania to Nils Svensson and Karen Andersdatter Killerud. Contrary to some sources, he was not born with the name Landmark, but took the name as a grown-up. He had lost his father at the age of seven, and was raised by district stipendiary magistrate (sorenskriver) Jens Stub. Stub would later be a founding father of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814.

In 1801 he married Barbra Henriette Rantzau Heiberg. In December 1835 Nils Landmark took his second wife Christiane Wilhelmine Lange. sister-in-law of Even Hanssen and aunt of Johan Jørgen Lange Hanssen.

In total, Nils Landmark was the father of fifteen children. One of his sons from the first marriage, Johan Widing Heiberg Landmark, became a jurist and politician. Others became physicians or priests, Besides this he specialized in fruit trees. His older brother Andreas Landmark, who was a bailiff in Romsdals Amt, served during the same period.

Nils Landmark retired from the position as district stipendiary magistrate in 1852. He died in 1859 in Ytre Holmedal Municipality.