Marie Colban

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| occupation = novelist, short story writer and translator

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Marie Colban (18 December 1814 – 27 March 1884) was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer and translator.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Marie Colban |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Elisabeth |last=Aasen |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Marie_Colban/utdypning |language=Norwegian|accessdate=21 June 2010}}

Biography

She was born at Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of Peter Nicolai Schmidt (1776–1846) and Petronelle Sandberg (1787–1846). Her father was an attorney.

She was married to teacher Nathanael Angell Colban (1793–1850) from 1836. After his death in 1850 she resided in Paris from 1856 and also wrote for Norwegian newspapers. In the summer months she usually visited Norway, but in the autumn she returned to Paris.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Marie Schmidt Colban |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Marie_Schmidt_Colban |language=Norwegian | accessdate=21 June 2010 }}{{cite web|url = https://nordicwomensliterature.net/writers/colban-adolphine-marie/ |title= Adolphine Marie Colban |publisher = The History of Nordic Women’s Literature|accessdate= March 1, 2018}}

She translated Eugène Sue's novel Mathilde and other literary works from French into Norwegian language. Her first literary work was Lærerinden from 1869. She later wrote Tre Noveller, 1873, and Jeg lever, 1877.

From 1882 to 1884 she published a series of memoir articles from her Paris years in the magazine Nyt Tidsskrift. She spent her final years in Rome, where she died in 1884 and was buried at the Protestant Cemetery.{{cite journal |title=Indtryk og erindringer I. Naturalisterne |first=Marie |last=Colban | year=1882 |pages=305–319 |journal=Nyt Tidsskrift |volume=1|language=Norwegian |editor=Sars, J. E. |editor-link=Ernst Sars |editor2=Skavlan, Olaf |editor2-link=Olaf Skavlan |location=Kristiania }}{{cite journal |title=Indtryk og erindringer II. Berømte præster |first=Marie |last=Colban | year=1883 |pages=10–21 |journal=Nyt Tidsskrift |volume=2|language=Norwegian |editor=Sars, J. E. |editor2=Skavlan, Olaf |location=Kristiania }}{{cite journal |title=Indtryk og erindringer III. Berømte kvinder |first=Marie |last=Colban | year=1884 |pages=115–129 |journal=Nyt Tidsskrift |volume=3|language=Norwegian |editor=Sars, J. E. |editor2=Skavlan, Olaf |location=Kristiania }}{{cite journal |title=Indtryk og erindringer IV. Skribenter fra keisertiden |first=Marie |last=Colban | year=1884 |pages=339–353 |journal=Nyt Tidsskrift |volume=3|language=Norwegian |editor=Sars, J. E. |editor2=Skavlan, Olaf |location=Kristiania }}

Selected works

Lærerinden, en Skizze, 1869
Tre Noveller, tilegnet norske Kvinder, 1873
Tre nye Noveller, 1875
Jeg lever, 1877
En gammel Jomfru, 1879
Cleopatra, 1880
Thyra, 1882

Marie Colban

Biography

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