Theodora Wilhelmine Linderstrøm (3 May 1855 – 16 December 1935) was a Danish pioneer in women's education. A member of the

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, she founded Th. Lang's School in

Silkeborg Silkeborg () is a Danish town with a population of 49,747 (1 January 2022).Louise Westergaard Louise Westergaard (27 February 1826 – 6 April 1880) was a Danish reform pedagogue and pioneer on women's education. Her parents were surgeon Jens Anton Westergaard (1791-1829) and Johanne Wilhelmine Louise Bentzen (1799-1856). Working as a g ...

(1826–1880) and from 1881–1882 at

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(), the private school operated by

Natalie Zahle Ida Charlotte Natalie Zahle (11 June 1827 – 11 August 1913) was a Danish reform pedagogue and pioneer of women's education. She founded N. Zahle's School in 1851. Life Her parents were the Roskilde vicar Ernst Sophus Wilhelm Zahle (1797-1837) ...

(1827–1913). From 1882, she managed (), a girls' school in Silkeborg. In 1886, the first school building was inaugurated. It was designed by the architect Anton Rosen (1859–1928). She had great success, added a women teachers' seminary to her school and was given the right to administer school leaving exams in 1887. In 1889, she received state aid for a study trip in

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, Switzerland and

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. In 1891–1892, she was given the task by a government minister to lobby for the foundation of a governmental women teacher's training seminary, though she was not successful. In 1893, she founded the Danish Girls' School Association () which held regular debates over issues of women's education; this organized the first exchange between teachers and students in the Nordic countries. In 1906 she was the co-founder of the Girls' School Help and Pension Fund (). In 1927, her niece Karen Linderstrøm-Lang (1894–1964) became her successor as seminary leader and principal of the upper secondary school.

References

External links

Th. Langs Skole website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lang, Theodora 1855 births 1935 deaths People from Silkeborg Danish women's rights activists Danish feminists 19th-century Danish people 19th-century Danish educators 19th-century Danish women educators