Comment on 9.3.1796
This flattery means that the Norwegian ”brethren” were lucky because Hammer was going there to discharge his office. However, there might be a sarcastic allusion to Hammer’s brother, who had been a judge in Tromsø but had been suspended from his office. It was this office which the younger Hammer-brother was to take over, see A. Falk-Jensen and H. Hjorth-Nielsen: Candidati og examinati juris 1736-1936, Copenhagen 1955, II, p. 83.
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