Frederiksberg is a part of the Capital Region of Denmark. It is formally an independent municipality, Frederiksberg Municipality, separate from Copenhagen Municipality, but both are a part of the City of Copenhagen. It occupies an area of less than 9 km2 and had a population of 103,192 in 2015.
Nielsine Nielsen was the first female academic and physician in Denmark. She graduated in 1885 and in 1889 she established her own medical practice and worked as a general practitioner. She was active in the gender equality movement through her work in Danish Women's Society.
Caroline Emilie Mundt was a Danish painter, known for her portraits of children.
Bodil Cathrine Hansine Hellfach (1856–1941) was a pioneering Danish nurse who was vice-chair of the Danish Nurses' Organization from 1899 to 1907. She later represented the organization at meetings and congresses at home and abroad, establishing the reputation of early Danish nursing.
Marie Caroline Ernestine Clementine Kruse (1842–1923) was a pioneering Danish schoolteacher and principal, specializing in the education of girls. She also helped to establish and support several educational organisations for women.
Ida Mariette Helene Falbe-Hansen born Hansen was a Danish educator, philologist and women's activist. A pioneer in the teaching of Swedish, she published textbooks and promoted Swedish literature in Denmark. She was also active on the board of the Danish Women's Society and chaired the Danish Women's Council.
Karen Vibeke Klint was a Danish textile artist who created a wide variety of tapestries, carpets, silks and home textiles, initially inspired by Functionalism. Her work has been used to decorate concert halls, embassies, ministries and churches. While her own creations were frequently inspired by geometrical patterns, she also produced tapestries based on cartoons by William Scharff and Palle Nielsen.
Elín Rannveig Briem née Eiriksdóttir (1856–1937) was an Icelandic teacher and writer who in 1889 published one of Iceland's most popular books, Kvennafræðarinn. Principally a cookbook, it also provided advice to housewives on health, hygiene and economics. The work was based on the classes she gave to her students while headmistress of the girls college at Ytri-Ey near Skagaströnd in the north of Iceland.
Henny Sophie Magnussen née Petersen (1878–1937) was a Danish lawyer, the first woman to be permitted to work in the high courts of Denmark after successfully graduating from the University of Copenhagen in 1905. She rallied support from members of parliament which led to changes in the law in 1906 which allowed women law graduates the same privileges as men. In 1909, she was able to practise as a high court barrister. Nanna Berg who had received a legal diploma in 1887, was not authorized to work in the country's high courts but was restricted to the lower courts.
Elisabeth Kirstine Frederiksen (1845–1903) was a Danish pedagogue, writer and women's activist. Thanks to study trips to the United States, she was a pioneer of visual pedagogy in Denmark, publishing Anskuelsesundervisning, Haandbog for Lærere in 1889. She was also an active contributor to the women's movement, chairing the Women Readers' Association from 1875 to 1879, and the Danish Women's Society from 1887 to 1894.
Karen Marie Ankersted Hansen (1859–1921) was a Danish teacher and a pioneering female politician. She was among the first four women to be elected to the Municipal Council of Frederiksberg in 1909 as well as one of the first four to be elected to the Folketing in 1918.
Kirsten Marie Christensen (1860–1935) was a Danish politician who represented Venstre or the Liberal Party of Denmark. In 1918, she was one of the first five women to be elected to the Landsting. The others were Nina Bang, Marie Hjelmer, Olga Knudsen and Inger Gautier Schmit.
Clara Edele Bengta Kruchow née Langberg (1915–1989) was a Danish headmistress and politician. In 1965, the Danish Women's Council (DKN) appointed her to serve on the country's delegation to the United Nations. On her return to Denmark in 1967, she chaired the DKN until 1972. She later became a member of the Danish Commission to UNESCO. Representing the Social Liberal Party, she was a member of the Folketing from 1971 to 1977. During this period, she represented Denmark at the European Council, the European Parliament and the United Nations General Assembly.
Forhåbningsholms Allé is a street in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Gammel Kongevej in the south to Niels Ebbesens Vej in the north. Notable buildings in the street include the Immanuel Church from 1893 and the former country house Forhåbningsholm for which the street is named.
Anne Kirstine Bruun (1853–1934) was a Danish schoolteacher and women's rights activist. An early proponent of equal pay for male and female teachers, in 1900 she became the first woman to serve on the central committee of the Danish Union of Teachers. She was an enthusiastic member of the Danish Women's Society and a frequent contributor to their magazine Kvinden og Samfundet which she edited for a time in the mid-1890s. Bruun was an early supporter of the Women's Society's direct involvement in the fight for women's voting rights.
Margrethe (Grethe) Glad née Axelholm (1891–1990) was a Danish socialite, fashion designer and educator. In 1931, she established a fashion and design school in Copenhagen, originally known as Margrethe-Skolen but now renamed the Scandinavian Academy of Fashion Design. During and after the Second World War she became active in charity work both in Denmark and France. She continued to fund charities by selling dolls dressed in historical costumes to museums in the United States and Europe. From 1977, for several years she headed the family firm L.C. Glad & Co..
Elisabeth Neckelmann (1884–1956) was a Danish painter. Her early associations with the Funen Painters influenced her work which consisted mainly of flower paintings and landscapes but also included portraits. From 1924 to 1954, she headed the Danish Society of Female Artists where she helped women to become professional artists on the same basis as their male counterparts. She was a member of various art exhibition selection committees, including that for Charlottenborg.
Camilla Marie Nielsen née Jensen (1856–1932) was a Danish philanthropist and politician who is remembered for her commitment to social work in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen. In 1887, she acquired a dilapidated property on Ny Carlsberg Vej which she adapted to house 75 small apartments for needy families with children. In 1909, after being elected to the board of Frederiksberg's newly established relief fund, she set up a folk kitchen which produced over a thousand meals a day for those in financial difficulties. Increasingly engaged with the Social Democrats, she fought for better housing conditions and improvements for women and children. Not only did she participate in several philanthropic associations in Denmark but in 1915 she was one of the Danish delegates at the Women's Peace Congress in the Hague.
Caja Rude née Løvgreen (1884–1949) was a popular Danish novelist, short story writer and journalist. Most of her works were for young women but she also wrote for adults. A keen supporter of women's rights, she frequently addressed the need for women to be better educated in order to become self-sufficient and take up jobs in industry. She covered women's affairs for the journal Social-Democraten. Her most popular work Kammerat Tinka (1938) emphasizes women's education, class consciousness and the need for a working-class culture.
Anna Christine Abeline Lohse (1866–1942) was a Danish schoolteacher and women's rights activist from Odense on the Danish island of Funen. In addition to teaching at the same school for 52 years until her retirement in 1936, she was an active member of the Odense chapter of the Danish Women's Society from its establishment in 1890, becoming an honorary member in 1915. She fought for better education as a means of improving women's self-sufficiency and employment opportunities. In this connection, in 1891 she established an evening school which women could attend free of charge.
