Aadel Lampe (10 May 1857 – 8 September 1944) was a Norwegian

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leader, liberal politician, teacher for deaf children and

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in the late 19th and early 20th century. She was elected as a deputy member of the

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in 1922, as one of the first women elected to the Norwegian parliament, and served as president of the

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from 1922 to 1926.

Biography

Aadel Lampe was born in

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county, 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

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) 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. She was one of the early leaders of the

, 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 Fredrikke Marie Qvam (née Gram) (31 May 184310 September 1938) was a Norwegian humanitarian leader, feminist, liberal politician and the wife of Prime Minister Ole Anton Qvam. She was the founder (1896) of the Norwegian Women's Public Health A ...

and

Randi Blehr Randi Marie Blehr (née Nilsen; 12 February 1851 – 13 June 1928) was a Norwegian feminist, liberal politician, suffragist, peace activist and women's rights activist. She was married to Prime Minister of Norway Otto Blehr, and was therefore ...

were Presidents. Lampe was originally a member of the

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, but later joined the conservative-liberal

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, where she was a deputy member of the national executive and a board member of the party's women's association. Together with

and

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, she was a co-signatory of a letter to the national government which called for women being admitted to the civil service.Thordis Støren, ''Justitias døtre: de første kvinnelige jurister i Norge'', p. 59, Oslo,

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, 1984, In the 1921 parliamentary election she was elected as a deputy member of the

for the term 1922–1924, representing the constituency of Christiania and an 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 Karen Platou (9 July 1879 – 10 June 1950) was a Norway, Norwegian businesswoman and a politician for the Conservative Party of Norway, Conservative Party. Platou was the country's first woman to be elected Member of Storting, Parliament. Sh ...

, who represented the same party list and the same constituency as Lampe.

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