Steinar Schjøtt (13 November 1844 – 11 January 1920) was a

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educator, philologist and lexicographer.

Personal life

Steinar Schjøtt was born to priest and politician Ole Hersted Schjøtt (1805-1848) and his wife Anna Jacobine, née Olrog,Opptegnelser fra det gamle Porsgrunn
by Inga Friis. Hosted by Porsgrunn public library. in Porsgrund where his father was stationed as

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. He was named Stener Johannes Stenersen Schjøtt after professor of theology

Stener Johannes Stenersen Stener Johannes Stenersen (15 July 1835 – 7 July 1904) was a Norwegian veterinarian. Stenersen was born in Elverum in Hedmark, Norway. He was a son of priest Gabriel Hofgaard Stenersen and Anne Birgitte Irgens. He was a nephew of theologian Ste ...

. In 1845 the family moved to

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. His older brother

Peter Olrog Schjøtt Peter Olrog Schjøtt (29 July 1833 – 7 January 1926) was a Norwegian philologist and politician. Personal life Peter Olrog Schjøtt was born in 1833 to priest and politician Ole Hersted Schjøtt (1805–1848) and his wife Anna Jacobine, née O ...

became a politician and philology professor. From that marriage Steinar was brother-in-law of writer

Mathilde Schjøtt Mathilde Schjøtt (née Dunker) (19 February 1844 – 13 January 1926) was a Norwegian writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist. She made her literary debut with the anonymous ''Venindernes samtale om Kvindens Underkuelse'' in 1871. S ...

and uncle of jurist Sofie Schjøtt.

Career

Steinar Schjøtt enrolled at the

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(now University of Oslo) in 1862 and graduated as

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in 1870. He used eight languages in academics:

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, French,

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and of course

. Within the Norwegian language, he preferred the

Landsmål Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-Nor ...

form, hence he Norwegianized his name from the

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 thi ...

Stener to Steinar. He was not appointed to a university position, but worked as an upper secondary school teacher. He was a teacher at Heltberg Latin School (''Heltbergs Studentfabrikk'') which was operated by Henrik Heltberg (1806-1873) in Christiania (now Oslo). He then taught in

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and

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. From 1874-1893 he was a teacher in Fredrikshald, then in

. He helped translating the ''

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'' to Landsmål, and published books in Norwegian and global history.List of publications in BIBSYS
/ref> He then published two large dictionaries in 1908 and 1914.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schjoett, Steinar 1844 births 1920 deaths People from Skien Norwegian philologists 19th-century Norwegian historians Norwegian lexicographers