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Minna Wetlesen (née Annette Wilhelmine Bülow; January 18, 1821 – March 14, 1891) was a pioneer Norwegian educator, teacher and author.
''Husgjerningsskolen på Abildsø - Europas første husmorskole'' (Erik Henning Edvardsen)
Abildsø gård website
1821 births 1891 deaths People from Drammen Norwegian educators Norwegian writers Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian women non-fiction writers 19th-century Norwegian writers 19th-century Norwegian educators {{Edu-bio-stub
Minna Wetlesen (née Annette Wilhelmine Bülow; January 18, 1821 – March 14, 1891) was a pioneer Norwegian educator, teacher and author.
Biography
Annette Wilhelmine Bülow was born atDrammen
Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such as Konne ...
in Buskerud
Buskerud () is a former county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Ha ...
, Norway. She was the daughter of Danish-born naval officer Ludwig Wilhelm von Bülow (1790-1834). and Anette Sophie Edel von Bülow (1789-1872). Her parents were member of the Danish noble Bülow family. After the death of her father, she and her mother moved to Copenhagen
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. In 1845, she married Frederik Wetlesen (1815-1890) who taught at the agricultural school founded by his father, Michael von Zenthe Wetlesen.
In 1865, she and her husband started Minna og Frederik Husgjerningsskole, a school for young farm girls situated at the historic farm Abildsø
Abildsø () is a neighborhood in the borough Østensjø in Oslo, Norway. It is located south of Manglerud and Ryen, east of Lambertseter, north of Langerud and east of Bøler the lake Østensjøvannet. During the late 1800s, Abildsø was the site ...
(''Abildsø gård'') in Aker, east of Christiania (now Oslo). This was the first such school in Norway. The school offered classes in mathematics and the Norwegian language as well as home economics, cooking, care of livestock and processing of farm products. In 1890, she published her popular cookbook for young housewives, ''Husholdningsbog for unge Husmødre i By og Bygd'' (Kristiania. 1890).
References
Related reading
''Husgjerningsskolen på Abildsø - Europas første husmorskole'' (Erik Henning Edvardsen)
External links
Abildsø gård website
1821 births 1891 deaths People from Drammen Norwegian educators Norwegian writers Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian women non-fiction writers 19th-century Norwegian writers 19th-century Norwegian educators {{Edu-bio-stub