Moltke Moe (19 June 1859 - 15 December 1913) was a Norwegian

folklorist Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...

Biography

Ingebret Moltke Moe was born in

Krødsherad Krødsherad (''Krødsherad kommune'') is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Noresund. The municipality of Krødsherad was established when it was separated from the municipality ...

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County, Norway. He was the son of

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Bishop

Jørgen Moe Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (22 April 1813–27 March 1882) was a Norwegian folklorist, bishop, poet, and author. He is best known for the ''Norske Folkeeventyr'', a collection of Norwegian folk tales which he edited in collaboration with Peter ...

. After school graduation in 1876 he began to study theology, but eventually he was caught more by folklore and religious history. From the time he was 18 years old, he collected folklore, particularly in

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. Moe was a professor at the

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from 1886. Moltke Moe also took up the legacy established by his father and

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (15 January 18125 January 1885) was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. They were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale collection ...

. He editing the collections of Norwegian folk tales in the tradition of

Asbjørnsen and Moe ''Norwegian Folktales'' ( no, Norske folkeeventyr) is a collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. It is also known as ''Asbjørnsen and Moe'', after the collectors. Asbjørnsen and Moe Asbj� ...

. After his father's death in 1882, and following the death of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen in 1885, he took over the publication of the folktales. He sent out several revised editions. He also published collections of folk songs in cooperation with

Knut Liestøl Knut Liestøl (13 November 1881 – 26 June 1952) was a Norwegian folklorist, Nynorsk proponent and politician. He was born in Åseral as a son of farmers Olav Knutson Liestøl (1855–1944) and Sigrid Røynelid (1856–1950). He was a nephew ...

Selected works

* ''Eventyrlige sagn i den ældre historie'' (1906) *''Folkeminne frå Bøherad'' (1925) *''Folke-eventyr frå Flatdal'' (1929)

References

Other sources

*Flotra, Jorunn ''Moltke Moe som Folklorist'' (Aschehoug/ Norsk Folkeminnelag; 1995) 1859 births 1913 deaths People from Krødsherad Norwegian folklorists Norwegian writers University of Oslo faculty {{norway-writer-stub