Henriette Wulfsberg
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Henriette Wulfsberg | |
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| Born | 6 June 1843 Drammen, Buskerud, Norway |
| Died | 9 October 1906 (aged 63) Oslo, Norway |
| Pen name | Claus |
| Education | Hartvig Nissen School |
| Relatives | Niels Wulfsberg (grandfather) |
Henriette Wulfsberg (6 June 1843 – 9 October 1906) was a Norwegian school owner, writer and translator.
Early and personal life
[edit]Henriette Wulfsberg was born on 6 June 1843 in Drammen to Mantzine Margrethe Seeberg (1812–1883) and printer and newspaper publisher Jacob Wulfsberg (1809–1882), son of Morgenbladet's founder Niels Wulfsberg.[1][2][3] She never married.
Career
[edit]At the age of 12 or 14, she had already started to write small notices in her father's newspaper, Jacob Wulfsberg's newspaper Drammens Tidende and later wrote several articles for the paper.[4]
After completing her education at Ms. Houbens school in Drammen, she took the governess exam at Hartvig Nissen School in 1866.[1] After that, she spent a year as a governess to a Dr. Wolf in Hadeland. With savings from this job, she travelled to London from where she sent a correspondent's letter to Aftenbladet. She made 16 trips abroad in total to England, France, Belgium, Italy, Denmark and Sweden. Several of the trips were purely study trips, but she was also invited on multiple occasions to give lectures. trips, but she was invited on several occasions to give lectures.[5][6]
In 1868, she became a teacher at Miss S. Bauer's school in Christiania and was for a short period an inspector at Bøckman's Girls' School. In 1878, she took over Ms. Bauer's school in Drammen and had a new school building built.[1] The school was merged with Thora Bordo's school in 1886 and Wulfsberg travelled to France and Belgium the same year to study the school system there. In 1889, she studied domestic economics in Belgium, before setting up a school kitchen on her return to Drammen. This was among the first in Norway and Wulfsberg is credited with introducing the school kitchen scheme in the country.[3][5]
Wulfsberg was also a pioneer in teaching materials. At her request, her brother-in-law Christian Lund dictated a legal textbook to the students at Wulfsberg's girls' school. This was the first printed Norwegian textbook in jurisprudence for school students.[7] She participated on the Act on Higher Public Schools of 1896, representing girls' school alongside Ragna Nielsen and Bernhard Pauss.[8]
In 1896, Wulfsberg left the school in Drammen. Four years later, the book Om den nye Ordning af Middelskoleexamen for Piger og Huslig Økonomi som Undervisningsfag was published, containing two of Wulfsberg's lectures. In 1884, she published the book Skolehistorier under the pseudonym Claus. From 1894, she was employed by the magazine Husmoderen as well as contributing to various other magazines and newspapers.[6]
Later life
[edit]Wulfsberg died on 9 October 1906 in Oslo, at the age of 63.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Koren, Kristian (1885). Fortegnelse over Filologer, Realister og Mineraloger fra Norges Universitet 1813-1884 : samt Kalender for de høiere norske Skoler (in Norwegian). Christiania: Mallings Boghandels Forl. p. 92.
- ^ Halvorsen, J.B.; Koht, Halvdan (1908). Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon 1814-1880 : paa Grundlag af J.E. Krafts og Chr. Langes "Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon 1814-1856". 6 : U-Ø (in Norwegian). Christiania: Den Norske Forlagsforening. pp. 691–695.
- ^ a b Kvaale, Reidun (1986). Kvinner i norsk presse gjennom 150 år (in Norwegian). Oslo: Gyldendal. p. 17. ISBN 8205167214.
- ^ Borgen, Per Otto (1995). Drammen byleksikon (in Norwegian). Drammen: P.O. Borgen. p. 266. ISBN 8291649006.
- ^ a b Mørck, Fredrikke; Høgh, Marie (1914). Norske kvinder : en oversigt over deres stilling og livsvilkaar i hundredeaaret 1814-1914. 1 (in Norwegian). Christiania: Berg & Høgh. pp. 178–180.
- ^ a b Halvorsen, J.B.; Koht, Halvdan (1908). Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon 1814-1880 : paa Grundlag af J.E. Krafts og Chr. Langes "Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon 1814-1856". 6 : U-Ø (in Norwegian). Den Norske Forlagsforening. pp. 691–693.
- ^ Bull, Edvard; Krogvig, Anders; Gran, Gerhard (1938). Norsk biografisk leksikon. B. 8 : Kristensen-Løwenhielm. Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 471.
- ^ Haffner, Vilhelm (1925). Innstillinger og betenkninger fra kongelige og parlamentariske kommisjoner, departementale komiteer m.m. [1] : 1814-1924 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Fabritius. p. 412.
- ^ Borgen, Per Otto (1996). De skriveføre drammensere : drammensdiktere gjennom 220 år (in Norwegian). Drammen: Forl. for by- og bygdehistorie. pp. 82–85. ISBN 8291649022.