Hans Hagerup Gyldenpalm

Hans Hagerup Gyldenpalm (27 October 1717 – 19 February 1781) was a Danish born, Norwegian jurist and civil servant.

Hans Hagerup was born at Kalundborg on the island of Zealand in Denmark. He was a son of Eiler Hagerup (1685–1743). He belonged to an old family from Trondheim, but was born in Denmark, where his father was then a priest. In 172, he followed the family to Trondheim when his father was appointed successor to Thomas von Westen as head of the Christian mission among the Sami people.

After studies at home, he was in 1731 sent to the University of Copenhagen by his father, who in the same year was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Nidaros. In 1734, his father arranged for him to be hired as a teacher at Trondheim Cathedral School. Hagerup later traveled to Copenhagen, where he took his law degree in 1736. He served as County governor of Nordland from 1751. He was appointed General War Commissioner (Norwegian: generalkrigskommissær) of Nordland from 1762. In 1767 he was appointed chief administrative officer (Norwegian: stiftsamtmann) of Kristiansand and County governor of Nedenes.

Gyldenpalm was married twice. In 1740, he married Anne Cathrine Sommer (1707-1745) the widow Bailiff and postmaster Jens Hannibalsen Hammer (1674-1738). In 1748, he married Anne Margrethe Høyer (1701-1764), widow of district governor Christian Soelgaard (1687-1742). He was the grandfather of Hans Hagerup Falbe. He died in 1781 and was granted nobility and his surname changed to Gyldenpalm after his death.