Johannes Steen
Johannes Wilhelm Christian Steen (22 July 1827, Christiania - 1 April 1906, Voss, Hordaland) was a Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway from 1891 to 1893 and from 1898 to 1902.
He was born in Oslo and grew up in Vesteraalen.[1]
Steen's final administration was responsible for the 1902 Land Sales Act, that limited the buying or leasing of state-owned land to fluent Norwegian speakers, barring the Saami people from the purchase of their traditional hunting and grazing grounds.[2]
References
- ↑ Johannes Steen Store norske leksikon.
- ↑ BBC History Magazine, January 2011 The Saami of Scaninavia p. 19;
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Preceded by Emil Stang |
Prime Minister of Norway 1891–1893 |
Succeeded by Emil Stang |
Preceded by Francis Hagerup |
Prime Minister of Norway 1898–1902 |
Succeeded by Otto Albert Blehr |
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