page_title: Diderik von Cappelen
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Diderik von Cappelen / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Didrich von Cappelen seal on Constitution 1814
context_page_description: Diderik von Cappelen was a Norwegian wholesaler, merchant, shipowner, estate owner and politician in 1814. He is often referred to as Diderik von Cappelen but he spelt his name Didrich von Cappelen and is also referred to as Didrik von Cappelen.
context_section_description: Cappelen was educated in his father's business, after being in 1779-80 at Kingswood School outside Bristol where he also met John Wesley. Diderik von Cappelen was a successful businessman continuing and expanding the family business. He was a religious man, he helped several poor people, paid for public schools and roads in Skien and paid a considerable amount of money to the establishing of the first Norwegian university.
  He represented Skien at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814.
caption: Family coat of arms in Cappelen's seal of 1814. Modern drawing.
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