Jens Boalth

Jens Boalth was a Norwegian educator. He was Rector at the Bergen Cathedral School and a driving force behind cultural development in Bergen, Norway.
He was born in Christiania. He was the son of Larsen Boalth.
He grew up in a wealthy merchant family and attended Christiania Cathedral School. In 1742, he entered the University of Copenhagen, where he relieved his theological degree in 1745 and took a Magister degree in 1750.
From 1756, he was Rector at the Bergen Cathedral School. In total, he was an educator at the school for more than 20 years.
He co-founded the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in 1765 and the Philharmonic Drawing School in 1772. In 1774, he founded Det nyttige Selskab, a service society which focused on the well being of the general population.