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About Anton Elias Smitt
- Anton Elias Smitt (7 May 1883 – 1970) was a Norwegian forester. He was born in Bergen as a son of shipbuilder and works owner Georg Christian Smitt and Marie Cathrine Wolff.
- His father was a half-brother (different mother) of Jonas, Livius and Jakob Sverdrup Smitt.
- Smitt graduated from the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1909.
- He worked as the county forester of Rogaland from 1914 to 1923, and at the research institution Vestlandets forstlige forsøksstasjon from 1923 to 1928.
- From 1 January 1928 to 31 December 1956 he served as its general director.
- As general director of the institute, Smitt was influential on the practice of large-scale forest planting in Western Norway, Central Norway and Northern Norway.
- He travelled extensively abroad, to study methods and ways to plant forest in the somewhat rough climate in these parts of Norway.
- Among others he found the North American species Picea sitchensis to be suitable for Norway, during a study trip in 1916 and 1917.
- The biographical dictionary Norsk biografisk leksikon referred to this forest planting as a "national task on the highest level".Anton Elias Smitt died in 1970.
- Vestlandets forstlige forsøksstasjon became a part of Skogforsk through a 1972 merger, which in turn became the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute through a 2006 merger.
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