Line Luplau (1823–1891) was a Danish feminist and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund or DKV (Danish Women's Society Suffrage Union) and first chairperson in 1889–1891.
8-600: Kvindevalgretsforeningen (KVF), or the Women's Suffrage Association, was a Danish organization established by Line Luplau in 1889 specifically to promote women's suffrage . The association not only organized meetings on voting rights but participated in electoral meetings, asking candidates how they felt about women's participation in provincial and national elections. The first meeting was held on 15 February 1889 with 1,500 participants. In addition to Luplau, Louise Nørlund and Johanne Meyer , there were also some prominent gentlemen in
16-459: A national celebration. In 1872, Luplau became a member of the local branch of the women's organisation Dansk Kvindesamfund (DK) alongside her spouse and her daughter Marie Luplau . Her interest in women's rights focused on woman suffrage and equal political rights, and she belonged to the opposition group within the DK. In 1888, she delivered a list of 1702 names in support to Fredrik Bajer 's motion in
24-506: Is regarded to have developed from the public debate following the controversial novel Clara Raphael by Mathilde Fibiger (1851). Her spouse served as a vicar in a parish in Slesvig-Holsten , and the family was forced to leave for Varde when this part of Denmark was lost after the war in 1864. In Varde, Luplau founded a charity organisation, and became the first woman in Denmark to speak at
32-604: The Copenhagen chapter of the Danish Women's Society . Line Luplau Line Luplau was born on 22 April 1823 in Mern , the daughter of the vicar Hans Christian Monrad (1780–1825) and Ferdinandine Henriette Gieertsen (1783–1871) and married the vicar Daniel Carl Erhard Luplau (1818–1909), in 1847. Luplau developed an early frustration over the fact that women was not recognized full rights as humans because of their sex. This interest
40-433: The audience, including Fredrik Bajer and Jens Christian Hostrup . After the death of Luplau in 1891, interest in the organization diminished. Nevertheless, in 1891 Louise Nørlund, who had assisted Luplaus from the start, became president of KVF but retired in 1893 to return to family life. Nielsine Nielsen then took over the presidency until 1898 when the organization was dissolved. Its interests were then taken over by
48-513: The four main issues within women's rights. Luplau became one of the leading figures of the Danish women suffrage movement, and served on the board of the KF paper Hvad vi vil alongside Matilde Bajer , Anna Nielsen and Massi Bruhn . In 1889, Luplau founded the Danish suffrage movement Kvindevalgretsforeningen (KVF) together with Louise Nørlund , and served as its chairperson from 1889 to 1891. Her goal
56-482: The parliament of women suffrage as the representative of the DK. In 1885, she belonged to the supporters of the newly founded women's organisation Kvindelig Fremskridtsforening (KF), a fraction of former DK members, and served on the KF central committee in 1886. In 1886, she moved to Copenhagen after her husband's retirement, and in 1888, she represented KF at the first Nordic women's conference in Copenhagen, where she and Johanne Meyer presented women suffrage as one of
64-458: Was to form an organisation exclusively for women's suffrage rather than the DK and KF, which handled many different women's issues, and she gathered support from both males and various different political groups, especially left-wing political groups. Luplau was a controversial, strict and energetic activist with a direct approach whose activism aroused strong emotions, and she was not popular among other women's groups, who considered her to have split
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