Johan hjort biography
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Johan Bernhard Hjort
Norwegian supreme court lawyer (–)
Johan Bernhard Hjort (25 February [2] – 24 February ) was a Norwegian supreme court lawyer. He is known for co-founding Nasjonal Samling in , his later resistance work against Nazi Germany, including his work to help Scandinavian prisoners, as well as for his role as one of the country's leading defense attorneys after the war.
Hjort joined Harald Nørregaard's law firm in and after continued the firm as Advokatfirmaet Hjort. He was deputy leader of Nasjonal Samling from , and from he served as the leader of Hirden, the party's paramilitary wing. However, he broke with the party in and was arrested by the Gestapo in He was then sent to Germany, where he was interned at the Gross Kreutz estate together with Didrik Arup Seip, and carried out resistance work that saved the lives of many Scandinavian prisoners. Among other things, the group at Gross Kreutz collected lists of names of Scandinavian prisoners, and t
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Hjort, Johan
(b. Christiania [now Oslo], Norway, 18 February ; d. Oslo, 7 October )
marine biology.
Hjort was the son of Johan Storm Aubert Hjort, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oslo, and Johanne Elisabeth Falsen. After completing preclinical medicine at Oslo, he shifted to zoology at Munich under Richard Hertwig and later went to the Zoological Station, Naples, where he worked on budding of the Ascidian genus Botryllus.
He pursued an academic life as lecturer in zoology at Olso until , although his future as a practical fisheries biologist was presaged by his discovery in of stocks of the deep-sea prawn Pandalus borealis, a species with commercial potential in the Norwegian fjords.
He was founder and first director (–) of the Norwegian governmental fisheries (Bergen) and as such became highly regarded in fisheries affairs, not alone from the purely scientific and the applied aspects as related to the industry but also with respect to the fishermen’s
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Johan Hjort
Norwegian marine biologist and oceanographer (–)
Johan HjortForMemRS[1] (18 February – 7 October ) was a Norwegianfisheries scientist, marine zoologist, and oceanographer. He was among the most prominent and influential marine zoologists of his time.
The early years
[edit]Johan Hjort was the first child of Johan S. A. Hjort, a professor of ophthalmology, and Elisabeth Falsen, of the Falsen family. Among his siblings was the engineerAlf Hjort, who became a leader of subwater tunnel constructions in New York City. Johan Hjort had wanted to become a zoologist since his early schooldays, but to please his father he took initial courses in medicin, before following Fridtjof Nansen's advice and his own wish, leaving for the University of Munich to study zoology with Richard Hertwig. He then worked at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples on an embryological problem, which led to his doctorate in Munich at the age of 23 in He returned to Norway to become cu