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

vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English p ...

. 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 Sten ...

. In 1845 the family moved to

Skien Skien () is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the Norsjø area and Bø. The administrative ...

. 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 ...

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. ...

and uncle of jurist

Sofie Schjøtt Sofie Schjøtt (11 August 1871 – 20 January 1950) was a Norwegian jurist. Early life She was born in Aker to Peter Olrog Schjøtt and Mathilde Dunker. She was a granddaughter of Bernhard Dunker, and a great-granddaughter of Conradine ...

Career

Steinar Schjøtt enrolled at the

University of Christiania The University of Oslo (; ) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick University, the university was established in 1811 as the de facto Norwegian conti ...

(now University of Oslo) in 1862 and graduated as cand.mag. in 1870. He used eight languages in academics:

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

, Danish,

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and of course Norwegian. Within the Norwegian language, he preferred the

Landsmål Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official 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 (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Da ...

form, hence he Norwegianized his name from the

Dano-Norwegian Dano-Norwegian (Danish language, Danish and ) was a Koine language, koiné/mixed language that evolved among the urban elite in Norwegian cities during the later years of the union between the Denmark–Norway, Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway (1 ...

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

Levanger Levanger may refer to: Places * Levanger Municipality, a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway * Levanger (town), a town within Levanger Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway * Levanger landsogn, a former municipality (1856–1962) in Trø ...

and

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...

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

Skien (town) is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town/city in Skien Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is the administrative centre of the municipality. The town is located along the Skien watershed, Skienselva river, about to the northwest ...

. He helped translating the ''

Heimskringla () is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland. While authorship of ''Heimskringla'' is nowhere attributed, some scholars assume it is written by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (117 ...

'' 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