{{Short description|Norwegian folklorist (1859-1913)}} {{expand Norwegian|topic=bio|date=December 2016}} {{Use dmy dates | date=February 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Moltke Moe | image = Portrett av Moltke Moe crop.jpg | alt = | caption = Moltke Moe (date unknown) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date | 1859|6|19| df=y}} | birth_place = Krødsherad, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age |1913|12|15|1859|6|19| df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = folklorist | known_for = | father = Jørgen Moe | awards = }} '''Moltke Moe''' (19 June 1859 – 15 December 1913) was a Norwegian folklorist.

==Personal life== Ingebret Moltke Moe was born on 19 June 1859 in Krødsherad, Buskerud County, Norway. He was the son of Church of Norway Bishop Jørgen Moe.<ref name=nbl/>

==Career== After school graduation in 1876 he began to study theology, but eventually he was attracted more by folklore and religious history. From the time he was 18 years old, he collected folklore, particularly in Telemark.<ref name=snl/>

Moe was a professor at the University of Christiania from 1886. Moltke Moe also took up the legacy established by his father and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. He edited the collections of Norwegian folk tales in the tradition of Asbjørnsen and Moe. After his father's death in 1882, and following the death of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen in 1885, he took over the publication of the folktales. He sent out several revised editions. He also published collections of folk songs in cooperation with Knut Liestøl.<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Moltke Moe |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Reimund |last=Kvideland |editor=Helle, Knut |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Moltke_Moe/utdypning|language=Norwegian |accessdate=18 February 2010}}</ref><ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Moltke Moe |first=Brynjulf |last=Alver |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Moltke_Moe |editor=Henriksen, Petter|language=Norwegian|accessdate=18 February 2010 }}</ref>

==Selected works== * ''Eventyrlige sagn i den ældre historie'' (1906) *''Folkeminne frå Bøherad'' (1925) *''Folke-eventyr frå Flatdal'' (1929)

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==Other sources== *Flotra, Jorunn ''Moltke Moe som Folklorist'' (Aschehoug/Norsk Folkeminnelag; 1995)

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