Aadel Lampe

Aadel Lampe (born 10 May 1857-died 1944) was a Norwegian women's rights leader, liberal politician, teacher for deaf children and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th century. She was elected as a deputy member of the Storting in 1922, as one of the first women elected to the Norwegian parliament, and served as President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1922 to 1926.[1]

Aadel Lampe
9th President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
In office
1922–1926
Preceded byRandi Blehr
Succeeded byFredrikke Mørck
Deputy member of the Storting for Christiania
In office
1922–1924
Personal details
Born10 May 1857
Died1944
NationalityNorway
Political party

Biography

Aadel Lampe was born at Stranda in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Her father, Claus Ernst Lampe, was a parish priest. She graduated as a teacher from the Nissen Higher School for Young Women in Kristiania (now Oslo) and was then employed as a teacher at Nissen's Girls' School. Later she worked as a teacher at Hedevig Rosing's skole, a school for deaf children in Kristiania.[2][3][4]

She was one of the early leaders of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights, and served as its President from 1922 to 1926. She joined the board of the organization in 1895 and served as Vice President during the terms 1899–1903 and 1912–1922, when Fredrikke Marie Qvam and Randi Blehr were Presidents.[5]

Lampe was originally a member of the Liberal Party, but later joined the conservative-liberal Free-minded Liberal Party, where she was a deputy member of the national executive and a board member of the party's women's association. Together with Randi Blehr and Cecilie Thoresen Krog, she was a co-signatory of a letter to the national government which called for women being admitted to the civil service.[6][7] In the 1921 parliamentary election she was elected as a deputy member of the Storting for the term 1922–1924, representing the constituency of Christiania and a electoral list of the Free-minded Liberal Party and the Conservative Party. She was one of five women elected to the parliament, four of whom were deputy members and the fifth was Norway's first permanent MP, Karen Platou, who represented the same party list and the same constituency as Lampe.[1]

References
  1. "Aadel Lampe". Norsk Kvinnesaksforenings. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  2. "Døvelærer Ådel Lampe" (PDF). NYE Journal for Døve, Nr. 3, Årgang 26. September 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-16. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  3. "Hartvig Nissens skole". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  4. Thorbjørn Johan Sander. "Hedevig Rosing". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  5. Aslaug Moksnes. Likestilling eller særstilling? Norsk kvinnesaksforening 1884–1913, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1984, ISBN 82-05-15356-6
  6. Elisabeth Lønnå: Stolthet og kvinnekamp: Norsk kvinnesaksforenings historie fra 1913, p. 18 and p. 334, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1996, ISBN 8205244952
  7. Thordis Støren, Justitias døtre: de første kvinnelige jurister i Norge, p. 59, Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1984, ISBN 8200071723
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