Tove Kathrine Mohr (née Møller) (3 March 1891 – 26 August 1981) was a

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, and proponent for women's rights.

Biography

Tove Kathrine Møller was born at Thorsø in

Østfold Østfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in southeastern Norway. It borders Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other side ...

, Norway. She was the eldest of three children born to Katti Anker Møller and Kai Møller. Her father was a member of the

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and her mother was a pioneer women's right advocate. She was raised on the family estate, Thorsø Manor (''Thorsø herregård'') in

Torsnes Torsnes is a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway. It is the site of Torsnes Church (''Torsnes kirke''). History Torsnes was created by a split from Borge on 1 January 1910. At that time Torsnes had a population of 1,538. On 1 January ...

. She attended Ragna Nielsens pikeskole in Kristiania (now Oslo). She began studying medicine in 1910 and graduated from the medical department at the

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in 1917. In 1914, she was married to professor

Otto Lous Mohr Otto Lous Mohr (8 March 1886 – 23 June 1967) was a Norwegian medical doctor. Mohr was born in Mandal. He was a professor of anatomy at the University of Oslo from 1919 to 1952, and served as rector from 1946 to 1952. During the German o ...

with whom she had three children, including Tove Pihl. In 1922, she started private practice. From 1928-31, she was a teacher in physiology and health care at the State School of Education at

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. In addition to her professional work as physician, Mohr was politically active. She had a number of public positions. She was member of a number of governmental commissions for preparing law revisions. She also wrote a biography about her mother: ''Katti Anker Møller: en banebryter''.

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