Career
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for its first session in 1814, and was re-elected in 1815. He represented the rural constituency of Lister og Mandals Amt (today named Vest-Agder). Hailing from Feda in Kvinesdal, he had left the district at a young age to work at sea.
Many years later he returned to Feda, having worked himself upwards as a shipmaster in the Netherlands.
He died in 1829.