Erik Røring Møinichen Lie (23 November 1869 – 1943) was a Norwegian writer.
He was born in
Kristiania
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as the youngest son
of the cousins, writer
Jonas Lie (1833–1908) and Thomasine Henriette Lie (1833–1907). He was a brother of
Michael Strøm Lie and writer
Mons Lie
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He was born in Ålen as a son of Jonas Monsen Storli (1715–1791) and Karen Svendsdotter Aspaas (born 1717). His mother was a first cousin of Svend Aspaas. ...
. On the maternal side he was a nephew of
Erika (Nissen) and
Ida Lie, and a first cousin of
Erika Lie,
Karl Nissen
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Nissen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the son of the physician Oscar Nissen and pianist Erika Nissen, and he was taught piano ...
, painter
Jonas Lie and
Eyolf Soot
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Biography
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and a first cousin once removed of
Botten Soot
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Early and persona ...
. On the paternal side he was a first cousin of
Bernt Lie
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He was born in Mandal as a son of stipendiary magistrate Emil Bernhard Lie (1836–1891) and Nicoline Bessesen. Through his sister Ida, he was the brother-in-law of Gje ...
and
Vilhelm Lie, and a first cousin once removed of
Emil Lie
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Lie was born in Berchtesgaden to novelist Bernt Lie and Hedvig Mariboe Aubert. He was married three times, and among his fathers-in-law were ship owner Lars Christensen and ...
and
Nils Lie
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.
[ Together with Kathrine Elisabeth Dons (1876–1947) he was the father of writer, police officer and Nazi politician Jonas Lie. Through his wife Erik Lie was also an uncle of ]Helge Thiis
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Background
Helge Thiis was born in Trondheim, Norway. He was the son of curator an ...
and Ragna Thiis Stang
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Biography
She was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was a daughter of museum director Jens Thiis and his wife Vilhelmine Don ...
.
Erik Lie wrote both fiction: ''Tolv procent'' (1902), ''Direktør Lyngs hjem'' (1903) and ''Den nye lykke'' (1911); and non-fiction. He wrote literary historic books such as ''Honoré de Balzac'' (1893) and ''Den europæiske litteratur i kulturhistoriske billeder'' (1896), and the more biographical ''Jonas Lie; oplevelser'' (1908), ''Arne Garborg'' (1914) and ''Erindringer fra et dikterhjem'' (1928). He has been credited with taking the initiative to found the Norwegian Authors' Union in 1893. From 1901 to 1905 he was a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nordique in Paris
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,[ a part of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève.
]
References
1869 births
1943 deaths
19th-century Norwegian novelists
20th-century Norwegian novelists
Norwegian non-fiction writers
Norwegian librarians
Norwegian expatriates in France
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