Mathilde Schjøtt Explained

Mathilde Schjøtt
Birth Name:Mathilde Dunker
Birth Date:19 February 1844
Birth Place:Christiania, Norway
Death Place:Oslo
Nationality:Norwegian
Spouse:Peter Olrog Schjøtt
Children:Sofie Schjøtt
Parents:Bernhard Dunker
Edle Jasine Theodore Grundt
Relatives:Conradine Birgitte Dunker (grandmother)
Vilhelmine Ullmann (aunt)
Occupation:Writer
Playwright
Literary critic

Mathilde Schjøtt (née Dunker) (19 February 1844  - 13 January 1926) was a Norwegian writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist. She made her literary debut with the anonymous Venindernes samtale om Kvindens Underkuelse in 1871. She was a literary critic for the magazine Nyt Tidsskrift, and her play Rosen was published anonymously in this periodical in 1882.[1] [2] She was a co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1884, and a member its first board. She wrote a biography on Alexander L. Kielland in 1904.[1]

Personal life

Schjøtt was born in Christiania on 19 February 1944,[1] a daughter of Bernhard Dunker and Edle Jasine Theodore Grundt. She married the philologist and politician Peter Olrog Schjøtt in 1867, and they were the parents of Sofie Schjøtt.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: 2007. Mathilde Schjøtt . Store norske leksikon. Henriksen, Petter . Kunnskapsforlaget . Oslo. Norwegian. 30 September 2009.
  2. Rosen . 1882 . 113–139 . Nyt Tidsskrift . . . Kristiania .
  3. Encyclopedia: Mathilde Schjøtt . Norsk biografisk leksikon. Astrid . Lorenz . Helle, Knut. Kunnskapsforlaget . Oslo. Norwegian . 30 September 2009.