A camera objective lens (1) for an endoscope (18, 19), comprises anobject-side first prism (2) and an image-side second prism (3), a first lenssystem (4)arranged on the object side of the first prism (2) and a second lens system(5)arranged on the image side of the first prism (2), and a sensor surface (20)arrangedat the image-side end of the camera objective lens (1) parallel to thelongitudinalaxis of an endoscope shaft of the endoscope. The first prism (2) and thesecondprism (3) are designed to cause a first to third beam deflection as a three-fold beamdeflection. The first lens system (4) includes a biconcave first lens (6), abiconvexsecond lens (7), a third lens (8) formed as a rod lens, a plane-concave fourthlens (9)and a biconvex fifth lens (10) in this order as viewed from the object side.Thesecond lens system (5) includes a convex-plane sixth lens (11), a seventh lens(12)formed as a meniscus lens, a biconvex eighth lens (13) and a biconcave ninthlens(14) in this order as viewed from the object side.
