Carl Andreas Fougstad

Carl Andreas Fougstad (2 March 1806 – 3 July 1871) was a Norwegian politician.
He was born and grew up in Alverstraumen, today in Lindås municipality.
He graduated from the University of Oslo as cand.jur. in 1831. In 1828 he had been chairman in the Det Norske Studentersamfund for half a year.
He was a member of the social circle Intelligenspartiet, whose most famous members were Anton Martin Schweigaard, Frederik Stang and Johan Sebastian Welhaven. Fougstad was a co-editor of their newspaper Den Constitutionelle from 1836 to 1837. He authored the publications Det norske Storthing i 1833, Repertorium for Oplysninger og Undersøgelser vedkommende viktige Gjenstande for ottende ordentlige Storthings Virksomhed with three volumes in 1835 and 1836 (with Frederik Stang) and Det norske Storthing i 1836.
Most of the members of Intelligenspartiet held some public office (embete); Fougstad worked as a civil servant...