Agnes Fleischer (6 February 1865 – 15 September 1909) was a Norwegian pioneering teacher for disabled persons. She was born on 6 February 1865, in Christiania. Her sister was

Nanna Fleischer Nanna Fleischer (3 February 1862 – 1946) was a Norwegian pioneering teacher for disabled persons. She was the co-founder of the orthopedic institution, Sophies Minde. She was born in Oslo, Christiania (now Oslo, Norway). She was the siste ...

. She suffered herself from a serious hip and back disease, and with help form her sister, and funds from their father, the two sisters established a school for disabled persons in 1892. The school was the basis for the institution Sophies Minde, established in 1897 from grants from

King Oscar II Oscar II (Oscar Fredrik; 21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907) was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907 and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905. Oscar was the son of King Oscar I and Queen Josephine. He inherited the Swedish and Norweg ...

and Queen

Sophie Sophie is a feminine given name, another version of Sophia, from the Greek word for "wisdom". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Soph ...

. Agnes and Nanna Fleischer were both awarded

King Oscar II's Medal King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a constitutional monarch if his power is restrained by fi ...

in gold in 1905. Agnes died on 15 September 1909, aged 44.

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1865 births 1909 deaths Norwegian schoolteachers {{Norway-bio-stub