Henriette Bie Lorentzen
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| Born |
Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas July 18, 1911 Vestre Aker |
| Died | August 23, 2001 (aged 90) Oslo |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Occupation | Publisher and editor-in-chief |
Henriette Bie Lorentzen (18 July 1911 – 23 August 2001), born Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas, was a Norwegian humanist, peace activist, feminist, co-founder of the Nansen Academy, resistance member and concentration camp survivor during World War II, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Kvinnen og Tiden (1945–1955).
Born in Vestre Aker (now Oslo), Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas was the eldest daughter of the private school owner Theodor Haagaas and Henriette Wegner Paus, a granddaughter of the theologian and school owner Bernhard Pauss and a great-granddaughter of the industrialist Benjamin Wegner. She was a first cousin of the publisher Henrik Groth and of the noted surgeon and humanitarian Bernhard Paus, and a niece of the humanitarian Nikolai Nissen Paus. She was named for her Hanseatic great-grandmother Henriette Seyler and for her 2nd great-grandmother, Anna Henriette Gossler, eldest daughter of the Hamburg bankers Johann Hinrich Gossler and Elisabeth Berenberg. She was married to the businessman and historian Øyvind Bie Lorentzen, a son of the engineer and businessman Hans Bie Lorentzen and a member of the noted Lorentzen family, and a distant relative of Erling Lorentzen.
She earned the degree Magister in history of literature at the Royal Frederick University in 1937, with a dissertation on Henrik Ibsen and Christian Friedrich Hebbel.
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