Personal life

Peter Olrog Schjøtt was born in 1833 to priest and politician Ole Hersted Schjøtt

Ole Hersted Schjøtt

-Personal life:Ole Hersted Schjøtt was born in 1805 to shipmaster Niels M. Schjøtt and his wife Anne Hersted. The family moved from their native Jutland to Christiania in 1808....

 (1805–1848) and his wife Anna Jacobine, née Olrog, in Dybvaag

Dypvåg

Dypvåg is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is currently located within the municipality of Tvedestrand in the traditional region of Sørlandet about east of the village of Tvedestrand.-Name:...

 where his father was stationed as vicar

Vicar

In the broadest sense, a vicar is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior . In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant...

. He was named after his maternal grandfather Peter Olrog. He was the brother of philologist Steinar Schjøtt

Steinar Schjøtt

Steinar Schjøtt was a Norwegian educator, philologist and lexicographer.-Personal life:Steinar Schjøtt was born to priest and politician Ole Hersted Schjøtt and his wife Anna Jacobine, née Olrog, in Porsgrund where his father was stationed as vicar...

, who was born Stener Johannes Stenersen Schjøtt, named after professor of theology Stener Johannes Stenersen, but later adhered to Landsmål

Landsmål

Landsmål, meaning "language of the land/country", was the name Ivar Aasen gave the Norwegian orthography he created in the 19th century. In 1885 it was adopted as an official language in Norway alongside Danish. In 1929, Landsmål was renamed Nynorsk...

 and Norwegianized his name.

Peter Olrog Schjøtt married Mathilde

Mathilde Schjøtt

Mathilde Schjøtt was a Norwegian writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist. She made her literary debut with the anonymous Venindernes samtale om Kvindens Underkuelse in 1871. She was a literary critic for the magazine Nyt Tidsskrift, and her play Rosen was published anonymously in this...

 (1844–1926) from Christiania

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, philologist and daughter of noted jurist Bernhard Dunker. Their most prominent child was jurist Sofie Schjøtt.

Career

An academic, Schjøtt was appointed acting lector in Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

 philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

 at the University of Christiania

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 in May 1865. In January 1866 he was given a permantent position as lector, and in June the same year he was promoted to professor. He left in March 1888.

He then embarked on a political career, representing the Liberal Party. He was a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 from 13 March 1888 to 1 August 1888, Minister of the Interior from 1 August 1888 to 28 August 1888, member of the Council of State Division again from 30 August 1888 to 1 February 1889, and then Minister of Auditing

Minister of Auditing (Norway)

The Norwegian Minister of Auditing was the head of the Norwegian Ministry of Auditing. The position existed from 1822 to 1918.-List of Norwegian Ministers of Auditing:-References:*...

 from 23 February 1889 to 13 July 1889.
Within the last period he was also Minister of Finance and Customs

Minister of Finance (Norway)

- 1st Ministry :- 5th Ministry :- Ministry of Finance, Trade and Customs :- Ministry of Finance and Customs :- Ministry of Finance :...

 from 1 May 1889 to 6 June 1889.

In July 1889 he returned to his professorship, this time expanded to the field of classical philology

Classical philology

Classical philology is the study of ancient Greek and classical Latin. Classical philology has been defined as "the careful study of the literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds." Greek and Latin literature and civilization have traditionally been considered...

, at the University of Kristiania. He retired in April 1918. He died in that city in 1926.