Lise Karine Stauri, née Høie (6 January 1882 – 14 February 1949) was a Norwegian

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teacher. She was born in

Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...

as a daughter of Unitarian priest and school manager Rasmus Høie (1833–1909) and Lise Tjøstheim (1846–1891); through her sister she was a sister-in-law of Oddmund Vik. Her father managed Stavanger Seminary, but as this was disestablished in 1901 she moved to attend Seljord Folk High School. Here she met one of the teachers, Rasmus Stauri (1867–1932), whom she married in August 1907. Before that, they worked together at the new Gudbrandsdal Folk High School from 1902. Lise also studied gymnastics in

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, finally graduated from Elverum Teachers' Seminary in 1904, worked as a teacher in Vats,

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and Stavanger and finished additional teacher courses in

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in 1907. In 1907 she returned to Gudbrandsdal Folk High School, which in 1915 was moved from Kvam to

Hundorp Hundorp is the administrative centre of Sør-Fron Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the Gudbrandsdal valley along the north shore of the Gudbrandsdalslågen river, about west of the village of Ringebu. The Europ ...

. The folk high school became a cultural centre in Gudbrandsdal. The Stauri couple invited prominent academics to hold lectures there, and held international teacher courses from 1908 with 250 attendants. Foreningen Norden also centred their activities here. Outside of the school, Lise Stauri was active in

Noregs Ungdomslag Noregs Ungdomslag (NU, literally "Norway's youth society") is a Norwegian cultural society formed in 1896. It has around 17,000 members and 450 local chapters. Activities Among the society's activities are folk dance, theatre and the spreading of ...

, chaired the local Women's Public Health Association branch from 1926 to 1928, and founded and chaired Gudbrandsdal Housewives' Association in 1929. She was also a national board member of the

Norwegian Housewives' Association Hjemmenes Vel (Welfare in the Home), later Norges Husmorforbund (Norwegian Housewives' Association), was Norway's first association for housewives. Founded in Oslo (then Christiania) by Dorothea Christensen in 1898, it was also the first organizat ...

. Rasmus Stauri died in 1932, and Lise Stauri managed Gudbrandsdal Folk High School from 1932 to 1948. Their son Erik Are Stauri took over. In 1947 she was awarded the

King's Medal of Merit in gold The King's Medal of Merit (Norwegian: ''Kongens fortjenstmedalje'') is a Norwegian award. It was instituted in 1908 to reward meritorious achievements in the fields of art, science, business, and public service. It is divided in two classes: gold ...

. She died in February 1949 in Hundorp.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stauri, Lise 1882 births 1949 deaths People from Stavanger People from Sør-Fron Heads of schools in Norway Recipients of the King's Medal of Merit in gold