Stian Herlofsen Finne-Grønn

Who was Stian Herlofsen Finne-Grønn?

Stian Herlofsen Finne-Grønn was a Norwegian genealogist.

He was born in Risør as the son of engineer Samuel Grønn and Jacobine Finne. In October 1900 he married Margrethe Borchgrevink, a daughter of Sofie Borchgrevink. They had the sons Hans Finne-Grønn, a painter, and Jørgen Finne-Grønn, an ambassador.

He finished his secondary education in 1888, and after a some years where he studied and worked as an architect, he enrolled in law studies. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1899. His first genealogical work was about lineages in his native Risør, and was published in several volumes between 1895 and 1901. He was a secretary in Statistics Norway from 1900 to 1907, then worked in the National Archival Services of Norway from 1907 to 1914. From 1914 to 1939 he worked in the archival services of Oslo city.

In 1906 he created the periodical Norsk tidsskrift for genealogi, personalhistorie, biografi og litteraturhistorie, which was Norway's first periodical on genealogy. Editors were Finne-Grønn, Erik Andreas Thomle and Christoffer Morgenstierne Munthe.