Norwegian journalist, humanist, peace activist, feminist, resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor.
She co-founded the Nansen Academy and later became one of the best known women in the resistance movement in Norway during WWII. She survived Gestapo torture and Ravensbrück concentration camp. In the postwar era she became known as one of the country's most prominent women's rights advocates, and was publisher and editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Kvinnen og Tiden.
She was named for her mother Henriette Wegner Paus, grandmother Anna Henriette Wegner, great-grandmother Henriette Seyler and ultimately for her great-great-grandmother Anna Henriette Gossler, of the Hamburg Berenberg-Gossler banking dynasty.
Commonly known as Henriette Bie Lorentzen, in the pre-war era as Henriette Haagaas (which was also her mother's married name). Bie Lorentzen is her husband's double-barrelled surname (without a hyphen); her husband was a distant relative of industrialist Erling Lorentzen.
In 2013, readers of the newspaper Verdens Gang voted her one of the “100 most important women” in Norwegian history.
Norwegian journalist, humanist, peace activist, feminist, resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor.
She co-founded the Nansen Academy and later became one of the best known women in the resistance movement in Norway during WWII. She survived Gestapo torture and Ravensbrück concentration camp. In the postwar era she became known as one of the country's most prominent women's rights advocates, and was publisher and editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Kvinnen og Tiden.
She was named for her mother Henriette Wegner Paus, grandmother Anna Henriette Wegner, great-grandmother Henriette Seyler and ultimately for her great-great-grandmother Anna Henriette Gossler, of the Hamburg Berenberg-Gossler banking dynasty.
Commonly known as Henriette Bie Lorentzen, in the pre-war era as Henriette Haagaas (which was also her mother's married name). Bie Lorentzen is her husband's double-barrelled surname (without a hyphen); her husband was a distant relative of industrialist Erling Lorentzen.
In 2013, readers of the newspaper Verdens Gang voted her one of the “100 most important women” in Norwegian history.
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She was buried in an anonymous grave at Vestre gravlund in Oslo (area 20.912). Her parents are also buried at Vestre gravlund.
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