Elisabeth Cathrine "Lise" Welhaven (6 March 1815 – 26 July 1901) was a
Norwegian writer.
Personal life
She was born in
Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo.
By May 20 ...
as a daughter of the priest
Johan Ernst Welhaven (1775–1828) and Else Margrethe Cammermeyer (1785–1853), the daughter of
Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer. She was a sister of
Johan Sebastian and
Maren Sars (née Welhaven).
She did not marry. Through her sister Maren she was a sister-in-law of priest and professor
Michael Sars
Michael Sars (30 August 1805 – 22 October 1869) was a Norwegian theologian and biologist.
Biography
Sars was born in Bergen, Norway. He studied natural history and theology at Royal Frederick University from 1823 and completed a cand.theol ...
and an aunt of
Ernst Sars
Johan Ernst Welhaven Sars (11 October 1835 – 27 January 1917) was a Norwegian professor, historian, author and editor. Assuming perspectives from the positivism philosophical school, his main work was ''Udsigt over den norske Historie'', f ...
,
Georg Ossian Sars
Prof Georg Ossian Sars HFRSE (20 April 1837 – 9 April 1927) was a Norway, Norwegian marine biology, marine and freshwater biology, freshwater biologist.
Life
Georg Ossian Sars was born on 20 April 1837 in Kinn (former municipality), Kinn, No ...
and
Eva Nansen (née Sars) . Through her brother Johan Sebastian she was an aunt of architect
Hjalmar Welhaven
Hjalmar Welhaven (26 December 1850 – 18 April 1922) was a Norwegian architect, palace manager, and sportsman.
Biography
Personal life
Welhaven was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of writer Johan Sebastian Welhave ...
,
[ and through another brother Johan Andreas she was an aunt of police chief ]Kristian Welhaven
Kristian Welhaven (11 October 1883 – 27 July 1975) was a Norwegian police officer. He was chief of police of Oslo for 27 years, from 1927 to 1954. He was a leading force in establishing an organized Norwegian intelligence service before World ...
.
Career
She grew up in Bergen, but after her father died when Elisabeth was thirteen, she moved in with Michael and Maren Sars. They first lived in Manger
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where Michael was a vicar, but in 1854 the family moved to Christiania where Michael had become professor.[
The family home in Christiania became a notable meeting place for liberal and intellectual citizens of Norway's capital, and has been called "Christiania's first ]salon
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She died in July 1901, three years after Maren Sars. She was buried at ]Vår Frelsers gravlund
The Cemetery of Our Saviour () is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemi ...
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References
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1815 births
1901 deaths
Writers from Bergen
Writers from Oslo
Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour
Norwegian women writers
Norwegian women short story writers
19th-century women writers