Georg Burchard Jersin


Georg Burchard Jersin was a Norwegian Lutheran minister who served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly.
Georg Burchard Jersin was born at Leikanger in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. He was the son of the parish priest. He attended Bergen Cathedral School in 1786. He was enrolled at the University of Copenhagen where he earned his cand. Theol. in 1793. He was assigned as an assistant parish priest at Voss in Hordaland from 1794. He replaced his father as parish priest in 1808.
He represented Søndre Bergenhus amt at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. At the Assembly, Jersin voted with the independence party.