Ragna Hørbye

Ragna Hørbye, née Heyerdahl (15 September 1861 – 8 December 1950) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Left Party.

She was born in Furnes as a daughter of Harald Heyerdahl (1824–1886) and Marie Lithander. She took education, and studied languages abroad. In 1889 she married ophthalmologist Ludvig Hørbye (1856–1925).[1][2] Her daughter Ragna Heyerdahl Hørbye married Colonel Gudbrand Østbye.[3]

She was a member of Oslo city council for three terms, from 1920 to 1928.[1] She was a central board member of the Liberal Left Party from 1918 to 1929.[4] She was a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from 1925 to 1930.[1] In 1924 she was elected as the third deputy on the Liberal Left/Conservative joint ballot, and fourth deputy in 1927.[5][6] In 1930 her party did not field a joint ballot, but its own ballot, and Hørbye was the second candidate behind Anton Wilhelm Brøgger. Neither were elected.[7]

She also issued two short story collections, Novelletter (1885) and Nye novelletter (1894).[1] She died in December 1950 and was buried in Vår Frelsers gravlund.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1930). "Hørbye, Ragna". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 202. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "80 år". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 15 September 1941. p. 3.
  3. ↑ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1930). "Østbye, Gudbrand". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 584. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  4. ↑ Carstens, Svein (1987). Det Frisinnede Venstre 1909–1927 (in Norwegian). Trondheim: University of Trondheim.
  5. ↑ "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. VII. 176. Stortingsvalget 1924" (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
  6. ↑ "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. VIII. 69. Stortingsvalget 1927" (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
  7. ↑ "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. VIII. 157. Stortingsvalget 1930" (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
  8. ↑ "Cemeteries in Norway". DIS-Norge. Retrieved 8 January 2012.