Steinar Schjøtt

Steinar Schjøtt (1844-1920) was a Norwegian philologist and lexicographer.cite news |first=Gudmund |last=Harildstad |title=Ein hovding i nynorsk skriftkultur |url=http://www.dagogtid.no/arkiv/1997/24/bokm2.html |work=Dag og Tid |date=12 June 1997 |accessdate=2008-06-16 ]

Personal life

Steinar Schjøtt was born in 1844 to priest and politician Ole Hersted Schjøtt (1805-1848) and his wife Anna Jacobine, née Olrog, [http://www.porsgrunn.folkebibl.no/bok/ph/ph62-b.html Opptegnelser fra det gamle Porsgrunn] , by Inga Friis. Hosted by Porsgrunn public library.] in Porsgrund where his father was stationed as vicar. He was named Stener Johannes Stenersen Schjøtt after professor of theology Stener Johannes Stenersen. In 1845 the family moved to Skien. His older brother Peter Olrog became a politician and philology professor.b] From that marriage Steinar was brother-in-law of writer Mathilde Schjøtt and uncle of jurist Sofie Schjøtt. [ [http://www.snl.no/search.html?mode=alfa&head=Sc&page=15 Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store Norske Leksikon] (encyclopedia)]

Career

Steinar Schjøtt enrolled at the University of Christiania in 1862 and graduated as cand.mag. in 1870. He used eight languages in academics: Old Norse, Danish, German, English, French, Latin, Greek and of course Norwegian. Within the Norwegian language, he preferred the Landsmål form, hence he Norwegianized his name from the Dano-Norwegian Stener to Steinar.c]

He was not appointed to a university position, but worked as an upper secondary school teacher in Frederikshald and Skien. He helped translating the "Heimskringla" to Landsmål, and published books in Norwegian and global history. [ [http://ask.bibsys.no/ask/action/result?cmd=&kilde=biblio&fid=forfatter&term=Schj%C3%B8tt%2C+Steinar+1844-1920&op=and&fid=bd&term=&arstall=&sortering=sortdate&treffPrSide=50 List of publications in BIBSYS] ] He then published two large dictionaries in 1908 and 1914.d]

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