Nikoline Harbitz

Nikoline Anette Harbitz (27 November 1841 – 11 September 1898) was a Norwegian author.

Early and personal life Nikoline Anette Harbitz (baptised Nicoline) was born on 27 November 1841 in Melhus Municipality to Nils Nilssøn Dahl (1806–1854), a parish priest and Christopha Kirstine Rønneberg. She was the sister of Supreme Court lawyer, author and politician Walter Scott Dahl (1839–1906), author and theologian Konrad Dahl (1843–1931) and author Ulrikke Dahl (1846–1923). She grew up on the chapel farm in Melhus, where her father was a parish priest, before moving to Eid Municipality in Nordfjord for a few years. On 19 April 1865, she married chaplain and later parish priest Georg Prahl Harbitz (1837–1911), son of priest and politician Georg Prahl Harbitz (1802–1889). Together they had 11 children, including author Alf Harbitz.

Harbitz accompanied her husband when he moved around the country for his work as a parish priest, including to the parishes (prestegjeld) for Eid Municipality, Flekkefjord Municipality and Vefsn Municipality.

Immediately after she had finished working on her third book, Harbitz started writing her fourth, Kassererens Hjem when she died in Mandal on 11 September 1898, aged 56. Only the first part of the book was completed, but it was still published the following year.

In 1982, Mogens Haaland wrote a biography of her life titled Nikoline Harbitz, 1841-1898 : familiebakgrunn, liv og forfatterskap.