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Henrik Bergh

Barrister at the Supreme Court of Norway (1879–1952)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2022
Entity authorityQ5716155 ↗
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Henrik Arnold Thaulow Bergh (24 April 1879 – 12 July 1952) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician, born in Oslo, a barrister at the Supreme Court of Norway. He is known for his defence of Vidkun Quisling during the trial for treason in 1945.

References

Further reading

Lykke-Seest, P. (1945). Omkring Quisling-prosessen (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cammermeyers Boghandel.

Hemming-Sjöberg, A. (1946). Domen över Quisling (in Swedish). Stockholm: Natur & Kultur.

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“Henrik Bergh” enters the record as barrister at the Supreme Court of Norway (1879–1952). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Henrik, Bergh and Barrister can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1879, 1952, 1945, 1946—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1879-04-24, 1879-04-21—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Henrik, Bergh and Barrister.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q5716155. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1879, 1952, 1945 and 1946.

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This entry incorporates text from “Henrik Bergh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.