Lars Dilling

Born in Moss in 1848, he became part of the student world in Kristiania after taking his studentereksamen in 1869. Sources agree that he wrote humoristic songs and verses in the 1870s, many of them for the Studentersamfundet, and also created small plays for its stage.

He later worked as a man of letters in Kristiania, and he was especially known for light, entertaining prose about ordinary people. Reference works describe him as popular in his day for humorous, somewhat sentimental sketches and novellas, including Hverdagsmennesker, Gjennem lorgnetten, and I kupén.

He died in 1887; a Swedish reference gives the date and place as December 16, 1887, in Berlin. I couldn’t confirm a suitable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included here.