Steinar Schjøtt

Steinar Schjøtt (13 November 1844 – 11 January 1920) was a Norwegian educator, philologist and lexicographer.

His older brother Peter Olrog Schjøtt became a politician and philology professor.

He used eight languages in academics: Old Norse, Danish, German, English, French, Latin, Greek and of course Norwegian.

[1] He was not appointed to a university position, but worked as an upper secondary school teacher.

[4] He helped translating the Heimskringla to Landsmål, and published books in Norwegian and global history.