Ellisiv Steen, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ellisiv Steen

Norwegian professor

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1908

Date of Death: 27-Oct-2001

Profession: writer, professor, biographer, literary historian

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ellisiv Andrea Steen (4 February 1908 – 27 October 2001) was a Norwegian literary researcher. She was born in Kristiania, and was a sister of Ada Polak.
In 1933 she married Sverre Steen.
She gained her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1948; the subject of her doctoral thesis was a treatment of Camilla Collett authorship.
She was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1955, and appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1972.She was a board member of Norsk Film from 1948 to 1964, and Norwegian editor of the magazine Ord och Bild from 1950 to 1959.