Jens Edvard Kraft (22 December 1784 – 21 July 1853) was a Norwegian judicial officer, statistician, bibliographer, and literary historian.
In 1800, Kraft went to the University of Copenhagen where he studied first theology and then law.
[1][3] In the years 1751–1753, he published a number of short textbooks on logic, ontology, cosmology, psychology and natural theology.
Almindelig Morskabslæsning i Danmark og Norge igjennem Aarhundreder, a lexicon of the literature of Denmark, Norway and Iceland which was published jointed 1818–20.
Kraft was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1821.