Ellisiv Steen

Ellisiv Andrea Steen (4 February 1908 – 27 October 2001) was a Norwegian professor and literary researcher.

Biography

She was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of Harald Buch (1872–1950) and Camilla Collett (1878–1973) and a sister of art historian Ada Polak. In 1933 she married professor and historian Sverre Steen.

Her master's thesis was a study of English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. She gained her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oslo in 1948; the subject of her doctoral thesis was a treatment on the authorship of Norwegian writer Camilla Collett. She was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1955, and appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1972.

She was a board member of Norsk Film from 1948 to 1964, and Norwegian editor of the Swedish periodical Ord och Bild from 1950 to 1959.

Selected works

Aldous Huxley - 1935

Diktning og virkelighet. En studie i Camilla Colletts forfatterskap - 1947

Den lange strid. En studie i Camilla Colletts senere forfatterskap - 1954

Kristin Lavransdatter. En kritisk studie - 1959

Tarjei Vesaas: Is-slottet - 1964

References

1908 births

2001 deaths

University of Oslo alumni

Academic staff of the University of Oslo

Norwegian literary historians

Norwegian biographers

Norwegian magazine editors

Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

20th-century biographers