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Ingeborg Møller (29 December 1878 – 18 February 1964) was a Norwegian teacher, playwright, novelist and biographer.
Biography
Ingeborg Møllerwas born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. Her parents were Thorvald Fredrik Møller (1821-1879) and Nathalie Munch (1836-1904). Herfather diedone year after she was born. When Ingeborg was about five years old, her mother had a serious mental disorder and others took care of her. Part of her childhood was spent in Fredrikstad. During the 1890s, she spenttwo years at Olaf Berg's school of education (Olaf Bergs lærerinneskole). From 1915 she was involved inpublic-high school teaching at Dovre and Sel, where her teaching associates includedOlav Aukrust (1883–1929). In 1921 she was associated with a children's shelter at Lillehammer.
She made her literary début with the play Fru Karen, staged at Centralteatret in 1904. She wrote several novels during the 1920s. In 1948 she published a biography of scientist and philosopher Henrik Steffens. She was awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment (Gyldendalprisen) in 1948.
Personal life
She was married in 1904 to Daniel Kildal Lindholm (1875-1919) with whom she had three sons.