Hans Prydz

Hans Prydz (4 March 1868 – 19 August 1957) was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Conservative Party.

Personal life He was born in Grini in Bærum Municipality, as the son of lieutenant colonel Christen Edvard Prydz (1835–1909) and his wife Isakine Wilhelmine Caspara Abel (1840–1924). He was a great-grandson of Peter Blankenborg Prydz and Søren Georg Abel, both former politicians. His mother was a niece of the mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.

He married Inger Sandberg in October 1893. They had two daughters and one son. Their oldest daughter married a Nicolai Ditlev Ammon Ræder, a relative of the politician of the same name.

Career Hans Prydz graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1893. He worked as the municipal physician for Herøy Municipality in 1893, had his own physician's office in Brandbu from 1894, and was hired as municipal physician for Nittedal Municipality in 1901. In 1918 he was promoted to district physician, and from 1935 to 1936 he was acting county physician in Akershus. He chaired the association of county physicians in Akershus from 1908 to 1936.