Hallvard Rieber-Mohn (2 October 1922 – 4 August 1982) was a

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Dominican priest and author.

Biography

He was born at

Molde Molde () is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord. The administrative centre of the m ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

, Norway. His parents were Christian Joachim Rieber-Mohn (1891–1959) and Sophie Amalie Rosendahl (1892–1963). Rieber-Mohn grew up in

Hamar Hamar is a List of cities in Norway, town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet Counties of Norway, county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Hedmarken. ...

, where his father was an editor of ''Hamar Stiftstidende''. Rieber-Mohn was a student at

Saulchoir Le Saulchoir is a Dominican school of theology in the order's province of France, established 1904. After the expulsion from France in 1880, French Dominican friars went into exile in Spain and Austria; they were allowed to return in 1895, estab ...

, the Dominican school of theology in Paris from 1945–53. He was then assigned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo to St. Dominican Church and Monastery at Neuberggata 15 in the neighborhood of Majorstuen in Oslo. Rieber-Mohn was an official spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Norway. From 1959–66, he was the editor of the magazine ''St. Olav''. Besides being a columnist at ''Arbeiderbladet'' (now ''Dagsavisen''), Rieber-Mohn was a regular contributor on NRK radio programs. Rieber-Mohn debuted as an author in 1959 with a study of French poet and dramatist Paul Claudel (1868–1955). In 1982, he completed an essay featuring Norwegian author Sigrid Undset (1882–1949). He won the Riksmål Society Literature Prize (''Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris'') in 1967 and in 1982 he was awarded the Fritt Ord Award.

Selected works

*''Paul Claudel'', 1956 *''Det blodige nei. Tyske skjebner fra Weimar til Bonn'', 1967 *''Forrædere? Streiflys over landssvikets problem'', 1969 *''Sideblikk'', 1970 *''Midt på treet'', 1972 *''Ossietzky'', 1974 *''Reisegleder. Streiftog i land og sinn'', 1975 *''Menneske først – kristen så'', 1976 *''Fra politikk til forbrytelse'', 1977 *''Alvorets glede'', 1978 *''Dagbokblad'', 1982 *''Sten på sten. Fem blikk på Sigrid Undset'', 1982

References

1922 births 1982 deaths People from Molde Norwegian writers Norwegian columnists 20th-century Norwegian writers Norwegian Dominicans Norwegian Roman Catholic priests 20th-century Roman Catholic priests {{Norway-writer-stub