Arne Løchen was a Norwegian psychologist, philosopher and literary researcher.

Arne Løchen was born in Vang

Vang

Vang is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of "Vang i Valdres"...

 (now Hamar

Hamar

is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849...

), in Hedmark

Hedmark

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It includes a long part of the borderline with Sweden, Dalarna County and Värmland County. The...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. He was the twin brother of Einar Løchen

Einar Løchen

Einar Løchen was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party.He was a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm from February 1888 to April 1889. Then, he was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police in the second cabinet Steen...

, politician for the Liberal Party. His family also included his brothers, Kalle Løchen (1865-1893) who was an artist and Hjalmar Løken

Hjalmar Løken

-Personal life:Hjalmar Løken was born in Vang, Hedmark as the son of cand.jur. Edvard Martin Løchen and his wife Anne Elisabeth Grøtting. He was a brother of painter and actor Kalle Løchen, County Governor of Hedmark Thorvald Løchen, politician and Minister of Justice and the Police Einar Løchen,...

, editor of the Dagsposten

Dagsposten

Dagsposten was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county.It was started on 2 October 1877 by Olai Olsen. He chose a connection with the liberal politician Johan Sverdrup, who later founded the Liberal Party. It soon became the largest newspaper in Central Norway...

and Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler

Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler

Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler is a former Norwegian newspaper, issued in Oslo from 1763 to 1920. Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler was the first newspaper in Norway, and its first issue came out on 25 May 1763....

.

Among his works is an essay on Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...

 regarded as important for later research, and a monography on Johan Sebastian Welhaven

Johan Sebastian Welhaven

Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven was a Norwegian author, poet, critic and art theorist.-Background:...

. He was co-editor of the magazine Nyt Tidsskrift

Nyt Tidsskrift

Nyt Tidsskrift is a former Norwegian literary, cultural and political magazine issued from 1882 to 1887, and with a second series from 1892 to 1895. The magazine had contributions from severeal of the leading intellectuals of the time, including later Nobel Literature Prize laureate Bjørnstjerne...

from 1892 to 1895. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science from 1898. He was decorated a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog

Order of the Dannebrog

The Order of the Dannebrog is an Order of Denmark, instituted in 1671 by Christian V. It resulted from a move in 1660 to break the absolutism of the nobility. The Order was only to comprise 50 noble Knights in one class plus the Master of the Order, i.e. the Danish monarch, and his sons...

in 1916.

Selected works

• Om J. Stuart Mills Logik. En kritisk studie, 1885
• Spørgsmaal vedkommende de afasiske Sygdomme, 1888
• J. S. Welhaven. Liv og skrifter, 1898–1900
• Digtning og videnskab, 1913
• Fantasien. Et stykke av sjælelæren, 1917