10 Facts About Frederik Due

Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due was a Norwegian military officer and statesman.

At thirteen years of age, Frederik Due began his military education at the Artillery Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Frederik Due took part in the Swedish-Norwegian War of 1814, but after the union between the two countries was a fact, he was recruited by the Swedish court.

Frederik Due now served as interpreter between the francophone King Charles XIV John and his Norwegian cabinet.

Frederik Due remained in this position until 1871, when he retired.

Frederik Due settled down in Copenhagen, but moved to Christiania in 1873, where he died later the same year.

Frederik Due is buried at Var Frelsers gravlund in Oslo.

On 28 February 1828, Frederik Due married Alethe Wilhelmine Georgine Sibbern, the daughter of councillor of state Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern.

Frederik Due had a keen interest in science; in 1826 was made honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, and in 1829 member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

Frederik Due received the Order of the Polar Star in 1823, and the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav in 1858.