Education
Nørregaard graduated as an officer in 1881 and became a captain in the field artillery in the Norwegian Army in 1894.
Nørregaard graduated as an officer in 1881 and became a captain in the field artillery in the Norwegian Army in 1894.
Described as an adventurer, he left the country in 1895 without permission of his military superiors, effectively ending his military career, and in the following years, he lived in East Asia during a period marked by upheavals and war. He worked as a railway engineer for the Imperial Chinese Railways from 1896 to 1900. He was also the architect of the new, monumental government building in Tianjin.
He rose to journalistic prominence as a war correspondent of the Daily Mail during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and during the First Balkan War (1912-1913).
He witnessed the Siege of Portuguese Arthur and published the book The Great Siege: The Investment and Fall of Portuguese Arthur (Methuen Publishing, 1906) and the book War (1908) on the Boxer Rebellion, which were "written with great journalistic talent." From 1906 to 1908, he lived in Saint St. Petersburg as a foreign correspondent of the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet and the Danish newspaper Vort Land, and gave a vivid portrayal of the revolutionary turmoil in Russia. In 1909, he relocated to Berlin as a correspondent for Morgenbladet.
In the same year, he was appointed a "secret press envoy" to Berlin and Paris for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a position he held until 1911. From 1911, he was permanently employed by Morgenbladet.
He also wrote for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
During the First World War, he was among the leading commentators on the ongoing war in the neutral countries. In addition to writing on war and foreign policy, he was a food writer, and wrote humorous short stories. He was a son of the Norwegian colonel and aide-de-camp to king Charles Hans Jacob Nørregaard and Sophie Wegner.
His mother was a daughter of the industrialist Benjamin Wegner and Henriette Seyler, of the Hamburg Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler banking dynasty.
He was a brother of the noted lawyer Harald Nørregaard and of wine merchant and consul in Tarragona Ludvig Paul Rudolf Nørregaard. She was formerly married to the Norwegian cabinet minister and Director-General of the Norwegian State Railways Hans Nysom.
He had no children. He is mentioned as a foreign policy commentator in Morgenbladet during the First World War in the novel Lillelord by Johan Borgen.