Frisch is a Norwegian family of

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origin, of which many members were associated with the

Kongsberg Silver Mines Kongsberg Silver works () was a mining operation at Kongsberg in Viken county in Norway. The town of Kongsberg is the site of the Norwegian Mining Museum (). History Operating from over 80 different sites, Kongsberg silver mines constituted th ...

for several centuries since the 17th century. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, family members were noted as

goldsmith A goldsmith is a Metalworking, metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Nowadays they mainly specialize in jewelry-making but historically, goldsmiths have also made cutlery, silverware, platter (dishware), pl ...

s in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

. Its most famous member is

Ragnar Frisch Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th ce ...

, the first Nobel laureate in economics. Uio frisch 2006 0025

It is descended from Christopher Frisch (born 1615), who came from Germany to work for the Kongsberg Silver Mines in Norway. He was the father of Petter Christophersen Frisch (1640–1703) (also spelled Pieter Frisk). His sons were Paul Pettersen Frisch (1665–1730) and Christopher Pettersen Frisch (1672–1726). Paul Pettersen Frisch was married to Anne Antoniusdatter Nolt (born before 1678), daughter of Antonius Nolt (a German immigrant who also worked at the Kongsberg Silver Mines) and Barbro Hansdatter Schröder (1641–1712), a daughter of Hans Andersen Schröder (born ca. 1610–1615 in Sweden, died 1675). Paul Frisch and Anne Nolt were the parents of Ole Povelsen Frisch (1700–1779). Ole Povelsen Frisch was the great-grandfather of

in Christiania Antonius Povelsen Frisch (1826–1916), who was the father of goldsmith Anton Frisch (1865–1928) and grandfather of the economist and Nobel laureate

. The Frisch Centre in Oslo and the

Frisch Medal The Frisch Medal is an award in economics given by the Econometric Society. It is awarded every two years for empirical or theoretical applied research published in ''Econometrica'' during the previous five years. The award was named in honor of Ra ...

in economics are both named for Ragnar Frisch. Ragnar Frisch was the maternal grandfather of the television presenter

Nadia Hasnaoui Nadia Hasnaoui ( ar, نادية حسناوي; born 10 June 1963) is a Moroccan-born Norwegian television presenter. Biography Hasnaoui was born in Morocco to a Norwegian mother and Moroccan father. Her maternal grandfather was Nobel Prize–winn ...

References

*Huhnhäuser, Alfred, ''Die deutsche Einwanderung in Kongsberg'', Oslo, 1944 *Såtvedt, Olav, ''Sandsværs historie'', 1991 Norwegian families Families of German ancestry