Henrik Wergeland. Indlœg i jødesagen, til, understøttelse for forslaget om ophœvelse af Norges Grundlovs [Par.] 2, sidste Passus [“The Jewish Case in Support of the Proposal for the Abolition of the Norwegian Constitution’s Second Paragraph.”]

Henrik Wergeland (1808-45) was a pioneer in developing a distinctly Norwegian literary heritage and modern culture. Wergeland also campaigned intensely for Norway to abolish the 'Jødeparagrafen' the second paragraph of Norway’s constitution, written in 1814, which banned Jews from settling in the country. Finally, in 1851, years after Wergeland’s death, the Norwegian parliament deleted the article from the constitution, thereby lifting the ban against Jews, who were thus awarded religious rights on a par with Christian dissenters.