Hartvig Hansen Jentoft (1693 – 1 December 1739) was a Norwegian tradesman and sailor. Jentoft was born in the village of Borg on the island of Vestvågøya in the present-day county of

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

. He was the son of Hans Hansen Jentoft (d. 1718) and Ingeborg Hartvigsdatter (d. by 1734). His father was the residing chaplain at

Borge Church Borge Church ( no, Borge kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vestvågøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located just outside of the village of Bøstad on the island of Vestvågøya. It is the church for the Borg ...

where his uncle Arent Hartvigsen was parish priest. Jentoft joined

Hans Egede Hans Poulsen Egede (31 January 1686 – 5 November 1758) was a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the Inui ...

on his Greenland expedition in 1721. Jentoft worked as merchant for the

Bergen Greenland Company The Bergen Greenland Company ( da, Det Bergen Grønlandske CompagnieOswalt, Wendell H. Eskimos and Explorers'. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1999.) or Bergen Company (''Bergenkompagniet''Culture Greenland.." Sisimiut Museum. Accessed 2 May 2012.) was a D ...

(''Det Bergen Grønlandske Compagnie'') on

Nipisat Island Nipisat Island (Kalaallisut: " Lumpfish", referring to the island's shape) is a small, uninhabited island in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. Geography Nipisat Island is situated south of Sisimiut, on the shores of Davis ...

at the first

Dano-Norwegian Dano-Norwegian (Danish and no, dansk-norsk) was a koiné/mixed language that evolved among the urban elite in Norwegian cities during the later years of the union between the Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway (1536/1537–1814). It is from this ...

colony until the fall of 1725. Jentoft later settled at Buksnes in Lofoten. He lived there as a skipper, sailor and landlord. In 1727, he was married to Maren Røst (d. 1737) and after her death, he married Karen Schøning (d. 1755). He perished at sea in 1739.

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1693 births 1739 deaths People from Vestvågøy Norwegian merchants Norwegian sailors People who died at sea 18th-century Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian landlords 18th-century landowners {{Norway-business-bio-stub