Jens Schow Fabricius
| Fabricius, Jens Schou | |
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Jens Schow Fabricius by unknown artist. Oslo Museum from Digital Museum
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| Born |
3 March 1758 Larvik, Norway |
| Died | 6 April 1841 (aged 83) Osebakken near Porsgrund, Norway |
| Buried | Porsgrund Churchyard |
| Allegiance |
 Denmark Norway
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Danish Navy Royal Norwegian Navy
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| Years of service | 1762 - 1814 (Denmark) 1814 - 1836 (Norway) |
| Rank | Vice Admiral |
| Other work | Member of the Norwegian Parliament, Minister for the Navy, Representative at the Norwegian constitutional Assembly |
Jens Schou Fabricius (3 March 1758 – 6 April 1841) was the Norwegian appointed Minister of the Navy 1817–1818. He served as a representative for Søe-Deffensionen at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. During his naval career he served first the Danish Crown until the separation in 1814 of Norway from Denmark, and thereafter the Norwegian-Swedish Crown. Fabricius retired from the navy as a vice admiral.
Jens Schou Fabricius was born in Larvik, Norway. He was the son of District Judge Laurs Sørensen Fabricius (1695-1761). Jens Schou Fabriciu was a student at the Royal Danish Naval Academy in Copenhagen from the age of eleven.
He became a junior lieutenant on 20 December 1779. He was promoted to senior lieutenant on 25 January 1788. to lieutenant-commander on 13 November 1789 and to captain on 31 May 1799.
He was Ekvipagemester (Head of Naval Stores) for the Danish company trading from the Baltic to Guinea in West Africa from 1781 to 1787, during which time he journeyed to the Mediterranean Sea with the warship Oldenborg and to China as first mate on the Charlotte Amalie.
He saw service in the frigate Store Belt which, in 1788, was a cadet training ship, as second-in-command of the frigate Alsen when she was acting as guard-ship in the Øresund, and as captain of the smaller Speideren in the home squadron. In October 1788 he became deputy ekvipagemester at Fredriksvern in Vestfold and in the following years was often away on tours of duties with various ships, as captain.
In 1795 Fabricius sailed to the Danish West Indies, but he could not tolerate the climate and was sent home by his senior officer. In 1797 he sailed as captain of the brig Lougen which was part of a squadron destined for the Mediterranean Sea. On the outward journey his ship broached in a storm in the North Sea but righted herself with four feet of water in the hold and in the cabins. Fabricius and Lougen returned to Copenhagen on 6 August 1799.
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