Bernt Lie

He was born on 13 July 1868, in Mandal, a son of stipendiary magistrate Emil Bernhard Lie (1836–1891) and Nicoline Bessesen.

They lived in Trondhjem and Kristiania before moving to Tromsø when Bernt Lie was 15 years old.

In October 1894, in Kristiania Bernt Lie married Hedvig Mariboe Aubert (1874–1946).

[6] While the children were still young, though, Bernt Lie's family lived abroad, mainly in Rome, until 1910 when they settled in Lillehammer.

His four boys' books are also remembered; Sorte Ørn (1893), Svend Bidevind (1897), Peter Napoleon (1900) and Guttedage (1905).