Johannes Steen

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Johannes Steen

Johannes Wilhelm Christian Steen (22 July 1827, Christiania - 1 April 1906, Voss) was a Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway from 1891 to 1893 and from 1898 to 1902.

Steen's final administration was responsible for the 1902 Land Sales Act, that limited the buying of leasing of state land to fluent Norwegian speakers, barring the Saami people from the purchase of their traditional hunting and grazing grounds.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ BBC History Magazine, January 2011 The Saami of Scaninavia p. 19;
Political offices
Preceded by
Emil Stang
Prime Minister of Norway
1891–1893
Succeeded by
Emil Stang
Preceded by
Francis Hagerup
Prime Minister of Norway
1898–1902
Succeeded by
Otto Albert Blehr