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Jan 24, 1736 Lemvig, Central Denmark Region, Denmark Died on 23 May 1801 (aged 65)
Norwegian priest and meteorologist
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About Jacob Nicolai Wilse
- Jacob Nicolai Wilse (January 24, 1736 – May 23, 1801) was a parish priest in Spydeberg and Eidsberg, Norway.
- He was born in Lemvig, Denmark and is known for writing topographic works with extensive descriptions of travel in Norway in the 1790s.
- Wilse is considered Østfold county's first significant cultural researcher and one of the fathers of Norwegian village history.
- His friend Hans Strøm also wrote topographical works for Sunnmøre and Eiker.
- Like Strøm, Wilse authored one of the first descriptions of the relationship between nature and human activity.
- He was also an Enlightenment-era philosopher, a so-called "potato priest" (Norwegian: potetprest).
- Wilse was an early supporter of Norway having its own university, and he also envisioned a women's university.
