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Kjerulf was born in Christiania ( now Oslo ).

He was the son of a high government official.

His early education was at Christiania University, for a legal career, but his studies ended in 1839 as a result of illness, and the next year he spent some time in Paris.

Soon after his return his father and two siblings died and he took a job as editor at one of Oslo's main newspapers, Den Constitutionelle ( 1836 – 1847 ), where he worked until 1845.