Career
He was chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1901–1921).
He was chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1901–1921).
He was Minister of Labour (1898–1899, 1900–1902, 1902–1903), a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm (1899–1900), Prime Minister in Stockholm (1905), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1905 and 1905–1907), Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1907–1908), and Minister of Education and Church Affairs (1915–1920).