Henriette Bie Lorentzen

Henriette Bie Lorentzen (18 July 1911 – 23 August 2001), born Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas, was a Norwegian humanist, peace activist, feminist, editor, one of the founders of the Nansen Academy, resistance member during World War II and survivor from the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

She earned the degree Magister in history of literature at the Royal Frederick University in 1937, and along with Andreas Wyller and Kristian Schjelderup, she founded the Nansen Academy the following year, where she was a lecturer and also in charge of most practical matters until 1940. She was also assistant editor (1938–1940) of the journal Fritt Ord, of which Schjelderup was editor.

During the Second World War, she became involved, along with her husband, in the Norwegian resistance movement. In 1943 she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, even though she was pregnant, while her husband escaped to Sweden. She soon after gave birth to a daughter, who was taken from her. Thanks to an Austrian military doctor, the baby was given to her father and sister, instead of facing the prospect of being sent to Germany. As a Nacht und Nebel political prisoner, she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp where she remained until the end of the war. After returning from the concentration camp, she believed women should have a central role in rebuilding the country, and founded the journal Kvinnen og tiden together with Kirsten Hansteen, the first Norwegian female member of cabinet, of which she served as editor and publisher for ten years. She was subsequently also active in Amnesty Norway, the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and the anti-nuclear organisation Bestemødre mot atomvåpen in the 1980s and 1990s.

She was the daughter of a noted private-school owner and the great-granddaughter of industrialist Benjamin Wegner, as well as the first cousin of publisher Henrik Groth and noted freemason Bernhard Paus. She married into the Lorentzen family (her branch used Bie Lorentzen as a double surname without a hyphen).

She received the Medal of St. Hallvard in 1995, for her educational work on women and peace.