Otto Kristian Hiorth (8 November 1850 – 15 May 1906) was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Conservative Party.
Hiorth finished his secondary education in 1869 and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1876. He worked as a physician in Vaage and Rakkestad before becoming district physician of Ytre Nordfjord in 1883. In 1892 he was hired in the same position in Levanger.[1] Here, he was involved in municipal politics.[2]
He was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Trondhjem og Levanger in the 1903 Norwegian parliamentary election. He met in parliamentary session as a deputy in 1903, 1904 and lastly from 20 January 1906. This service ended abruptly when he died in Kristiania in May 1906.[1]
Wrote Verdens Gang, Hiorth experienced sudden pain when entering the Parliament building. Bernhard Brænne helped him lie down on a couch in the parliament restaurant, where he was given a morphine injection by another member of Parliament who was also a physician, Gunnar Magnus Graarud. Hiorth regained a steady pulse and drove home, where he was also visited by Graarud and Brænne around dinner time. In the evening, Hiorth died in his apartment; Graarud and another physician Stoltenberg were summoned to no avail.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Lindstøl, Tallak (1914). Biografier A–K. Stortinget og statsraadet 1814–1914 (in Norwegian). Vol. 1. p. 379.
- ^ a b "Stortingsmand Hiorth". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). 16 May 1906. p. 1.