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Louise Nørlund

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Louise Nørlund was early interested in politics, as her parents’ home was a center for radical democrats. She took her teacher's exam from Beyer, Bohrs og Femmers Kursus and was employed as a teacher at the Larslejstrædes Skole in 1878–1910. In her profession, she participated in the foundation of
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She was the daughter of the farmer and parliamentarian Mikkel Hasle Christiansen (1816–83) and Ane Jacobsdatter (1820–88). She married journalist and publisher Niels Jensen Nørlund (1854–1894) in 1881, but the couple divorced in 1892, and after the death of her former spouse, she was left in full
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or DK (The Danish Women's Association), which was the first women's association in Denmark. She was a very active speaker, and instrumental in its breakthrough in the provinces. She was, however, impatient of DK:s hesitance to support the question of women suffrage, and in 1885, she left the DK,
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or DKV (The United Danish Suffrage Movements For Women). It was a union of many smaller Suffrage movements in Denmark united under her leadership. In 1904, when DKV was made of 22 different suffrage movements, she made it a part of the international suffrage movement under
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Nørlund was a member of the liberal party and the first of her sex in its board in 1890–1904, but later left the party and was a candidate for the Social Democrats in the municipal elections in Copenhagen in 1909, but was forced the leave her candidacy for health reasons.
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the Kbh.s Kommunelærerindeforening (The Copenhagen Association of Female Teachers) in 1891. She was also engaged in the peace movement: she was a member of the
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Nørlund is, however, most known for her work as a feminist. Initially, she was a member of the
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or DKV (the Danish Women's Society's Suffrage Union) in 1898–1907 and 1908–1909.
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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom people
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and pacifist. She was the founder and chairman of the
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Julie Laurberg
feminist
Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund
Dansk Fredsforening
the Hague
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Dansk Kvindesamfund
Elisabet Ouchterlony
Matilde Bajer
Kvindelig Fremskridtsforening
Line Luplau
Kvindevalgretsforeningen
Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsudvalg
Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
IWSA
Berlin
Amsterdam
Budapest
Eline Hansen
List of peace activists
Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
History of Woman Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Categories
1854 births
1919 deaths
Danish feminists
Danish suffragists

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