Career
Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb was Faroese and trained as a lawyer He was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1805 to 1816. Hammershaimb was the last Prime Minister before the Lagting was abandoned in 1816.
Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb was the father of Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, who set the rules and orthography for the modern Faroese language.