10 Kroner - Harald V Henrik Wergeland

The 2008 issue commemorates Henrik Wergeland, the Norwegian poet and political activist whose 1845 death at thirty-seven cut short what many considered the most energetic literary voice of nineteenth-century Norway. Wergeland spent much of his short career agitating for the removal of the "Jewish paragraph" from the 1814 Norwegian constitution — the clause barring Jews from the kingdom — a campaign he never lived to see succeed. The paragraph was finally repealed in 1851, six years after his death.