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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, legendary king of Ringerike * Tore Hjort

The Oslo harts

Rasmus Hjort Rasmus Hjort (c.1525 – 17 April 1604) was a Norwegian priest and humanist. Neither his exact birthplace or his parentage are unknown. His training had been associated with Poul Madsen (1527–1590), Bishop of the Diocese of Zealand in Denm ...

(1525–1604), Latin ''Erasmus Cervinus'', was a priest in Oslo. He married around 1555 Gidse Frantzdatter Berg, who was the daughter of bishop Frantz Berg and Karine Lauritzdatter. He belonged to the

Oslo Humanists 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 i ...

. The couple had the son

Christoffer Hjort Christoffer Hjort (1561–1616) was a Norwegian clergyman and crypto-Catholic. He served as a vicar in Aker and was the priest at the chapel of Akershus Castle, until he was expelled from the country for Catholicism in 1613. Personal life Hjor ...

(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 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 Ann Hjort (born ) is a Danish actress best known for her role as Puk in the 1989 television series '' Nissebanden i Grønland''. Hjort was educated at Aarhus Theatre in 1983. Whilst filming ''Nissebanden i Grønland'' she met her (now ex-) hu ...

(born 1956), Danish actress * Christopher Hjort (b. 1958), typographer and graphical designer * Grethe Hjort (1903–1967), Danish-born professor of Danish and English literature, changed name to Greta Hort * Johan Hjort (1869–1948), marine zoologist and oceanographer * Johan Bernhard Hjort (1895–1969), supreme court lawyer * Nils Lid Hjort (b. 1953), mathematical statistician *

Peder Henningsen Hjort Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new n ...

(1655–1716), copperwork director * Peder Pedersen Hjort (1715–1789), copperwork director *

Vigdis Hjort Vigdis Hjorth (born 19 July 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She was long listed for the National book Award. Life She grew up in Oslo, and studied philosophy, literature and political science. In 1983, she published her first novel, the chil ...

(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