Lie
2 of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Lie. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
le, Jonas, a Norwegian novelist. He was born at Eker, Norway, November 6, 1833. He was educated for the law at Christiania, but, after a few years of scanty practice, he betook himself to journalism and literature. His first novel, The visionary, appeared in 1870. He traveled in the far North and wrote various volumes of Norse tales, including Stories and Sketches of Norway, Life in the North, and The Pilot and his Wife. In 1874 he was made the recipient of a literary pension which enabled him to travel extensively in Europe. Subsequent volumes were Thomas Ross, Adam Schrader, Rutland, Scenes of the Sea, Life's Slaves, The Family of Gilje, The Gulf, Two Lives, and Mischievous Powers. Lie published a volume of poems in 1867 and is the author of several dramas, including Grabow's Cat and Merry Wives. His most important critical work is a volume on Honore de Balzac. Lie's works have been translated widely into English and German. He himself would say that his greatest success has been attained in dealing with marriage and other social institutions, but the reading public will remember him best for his earlier simple sketches of Norwegian life.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JONAS, an American artist, born in Norway in 1880. He removed to America in 1893 and graduated from the Ethical Culture School in 1897. He studied designing at the National Academy of Design; and at the Art Students' League, New York. His pictures are exhibited in nearly all important museums in the United States. He received the first Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy of Design, in 1914. Vol. V-Cyc-EE
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Aiton's still wrote in 1910 as though Jonas Lie the novelist were alive and predicting his own legacy, but he had died on 5 July 1908; today he is remembered chiefly as one of "the four greats" of nineteenth-century Norwegian literature alongside Ibsen, Bj hough he is much the least read of them in English. The Jonas Lie of Collier's 1921 entry, his kinsman the painter, went on to a career the entry could not foresee: he made a celebrated series of canvases of the Panama Canal under construction and served as president of the National Academy of Design in the 1930s, dying in 1940. The most striking absence is a third Norwegian Lie: the mathematician Sophus Lie (1842–1899), unlisted on this shelf, whose Lie groups and Lie algebras became a foundation of twentieth-century physics and are now far and away the best-known thing called Lie.
Written for this edition, 2026.