Charlotte Bolette Sophie, Baroness Wedell-Wedellsborg (27 January 1862 – 22 July 1953) was one of four women mathematicians to attend the inaugural International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Zurich in 1897. Wedell was originally from

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, the daughter of (of the Wedel noble family) and Louise Marie Sophie, Countess Schulin, and the granddaughter of . At the time of the Congress, in 1897, she had just completed a doctorate at the

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in Switzerland, with Adolf Hurwitz as an unofficial mentor. The subject of her dissertation was the application of elliptic functions to the construction of the

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. At the congress, Wedell was listed as being affiliated with the

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. The other three women at the congress were Iginia Massarini, Vera von Schiff, and

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. None were speakers; the first Congress with a woman as a speaker was in 1912. Wedell married engineer Eugène Tomasini in Copenhagen in 1898; they divorced in 1909.

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