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Hjort, also spelled ''Hiort'' and ''Hiorth'', is a common surname of some Norwegian and Danish families and persons. The name means hart.

Early harts

Sigurd Hart Sigurd Hart or Sigurd Hjort was a legendary king of Ringerike (traditional district), Ringerike (modern central south Norway), during the late 9th or early 10th centuries. he is mentioned in ''Ragnarssona þáttr'' ("The Tale of Ragnar's Sons") and ...

, legendary king of Ringerike * Tore Hjort

The Oslo harts

Rasmus Hjort (1525–1604), Latin ''Erasmus Cervinus'', was a priest 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 ...

. He married around 1555 Gidse Frantzdatter Berg, who was the daughter of bishop Frantz Berg and Karine Lauritzdatter. He belonged to the Oslo Humanists. The couple had the son Christoffer Hjort (1561–1616), a crypto-Catholic priest.

The Røros harts

Both Peder Henningsen Hjort (1655–1716) and his son Peder Pedersen Hjort (1715–1789) were directors at Røros Copperwork.

The harts from Jutland

The harts from Jutland are believed to descend from Jacob Schade (b. ca. 1540), who was from Varde in Jutland and perhaps of an old, German noble family. His son Peder Jacobsen Schade (1571–1641) in Kalundborg was the father of Søren Pedersen (Callundborg) (1607–1650). His three sons called themselves ''Hiort''. One of his paternal grandsons, Severin Casper Hiorth (ca. 1668–1717), came to

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

in Norway.

Prominent harts

Alf Hjort Alf Hjort (12 October 1877 – 12 December 1944) was a Norwegian born, American electrical engineer. He played a leading part in the planning and construction of the underground and underwater railroad and car tunnels of New York City, as well as t ...

(1877–1944), electrical engineer * Ann Hjort (born 1956), Danish actress *

Christopher Hjort Christopher Hjort (born 15 December 1958) is a Norwegian typographer and graphical designer. In 1990, Hjort and three colleagues founded ''Gazette'', which has grown into one of Norway's largest professional companies in the fields of graphical d ...

(b. 1958), typographer and graphical designer *

Grethe Hjort Grethe Hjort (1903–1967) was a Danish-born professor of Danish and English literature. After graduating from the University of Copenhagen, she moved to Cambridge where she studied at Newnham College, earning a Ph.D. in 1931 and subsequently beco ...

(1903–1967), Danish-born professor of Danish and English literature, changed name to Greta Hort *

Johan Hjort Johan Hjort (18 February 1869, in Christiania – 7 October 1948, in Oslo) was a Norwegian fisheries scientist, marine zoologist, and oceanographer. He was among the most prominent and influential marine zoologists of his time. The early year ...

(1869–1948), marine zoologist and oceanographer *

Johan Bernhard Hjort Johan Bernhard Hjort (25 February 1895 – 24 February 1969) was a Norwegian supreme court lawyer. Having joined the law firm of Harald Nørregaard in 1932, he continued the firm after World War II as Advokatfirmaet Hjort, which today is one ...

(1895–1969), supreme court lawyer * Nils Lid Hjort (b. 1953), mathematical statistician * Peder Henningsen Hjort (1655–1716), copperwork director * Peder Pedersen Hjort (1715–1789), copperwork director * Vigdis Hjort (b. 1959), novelist

Literature and sources

* Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål & Riksmål: Hjort (slekt) (Per 10 April 2011.) * Store norske leksikon
Hjort
(Per 10 April 2011.) * Store norske leksikon
Rasmus Hjort – utdypning
(Per 10 April 2011.) Norwegian families Surnames from nicknames