Background
Sivert Pålsson Bratberg was born on Bratberg øvre, a farm near the village of Beitstad at Steinkjer in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.
Sivert Pålsson Bratberg was born on Bratberg øvre, a farm near the village of Beitstad at Steinkjer in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.
He served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly. He was schooled by his parish priest. Bratberg became a schoolteacher in the village of Dalbygda in Leksvik.
He later became a farmer on a farm in Velle near his native village.
The couple were the parents of two children. He died accidentally at his farm during the summer of 1816 after being kicked by a horse.
Sivert Bratberg represented Nordre Trondhjems amt (now Nord-Trøndelag) at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814, together with Hans Christian Ulrik Midelfart and Hieronymus Heyerdahl. Here he generally supported the position of the independence party (Selvstendighetspartiet).
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