Morten Lyng Lossius was a Norwegian military officer, engineer and politician.

He hailed from Hemne

Hemne

Hemne is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kyrksæterøra. Other villages include Heim, Hellandsjøen, Holla, and Vinjeøra...

, and was the son of Captain Johan S. Lossius. He was a descendant of Lorentz Lossius, who migrated to Norway from Göttingen

Göttingen

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 in the 17th century and became the first director of Røros Copper Works. He married Inger Marie Holtermann in 1845. He was the father of Knud H. Lossius

Knud H. Lossius

Knud Henrik Holtermann Lossius was a Norwegian educator.He was born in 1847 as the son of Morten Lyng Lossius from Lade in Trondhjem, and was named after his maternal grandfather Knud H. Holtermann...

, praeses of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters

Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters

The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters is a learned society based in Trondheim, Norway.-History:DKNVS was founded in 1760 by bishop of Nidaros Johan Ernst Gunnerus, headmaster at the Trondheim Cathedral School Gerhard Schøning and Councillor of State Peter Frederik Suhm under the name...

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Morten Lyng Lossius took military education, reached the rank of Lieutenant in 1840, and then had parallel careers in the military and engineering. He studied the latter field at the Polytechnical Institute in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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. He was the director of public road works north of Dovrefjell

Dovrefjell

Dovrefjell is a mountain range in central Norway that forms a natural barrier between Eastern Norway and Trøndelag, the area around Trondheim. As a result, it has been heavily trafficked during and probably preceding historical times...

, and headed the construction of the Trondhjem–Støren Line, which opened in 1864. He retired from engineering in 1874, and served as mayor of Strinda

Strinda

Strinda is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The area encompassed the eastern part of the present-day municipality of Trondheim south and east of the main city center all the way southeast to the lake Jonsvatnet.-History:...

 municipality from 1878 to 1881. He lived at the farm Lade

Lade, Trondheim

Lade is a community in Trondheim, Norway. It is located on a peninsula north-east of the city centre, north of the community of Lademoen. It was the site of the historic Lade farm.-History:...

, which he inherited from his father-in-law in 1858. In his military career, he reached the rank of Captain in 1857, Major in 1874 and Colonel in 1880.

He held the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and the Knight Cross of the Order of Vasa

Order of Vasa

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 and Order of the Sword

Order of the Sword

The Order of the Sword is a Swedish order of chivalry created by King Frederick I of Sweden on February 23, 1748, together with the Order of the Seraphim and the Order of the Polar Star.Awarded to officers, and originally intended as an award for bravery and particularly long or useful service, it...

. A road in Trondheim has been named after him.