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Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir
Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir (22 October 1863 – 21 June 1924) was an Icelandic teacher and Temperance movement, temperance worker. She traveled and lectured in different countries on behalf of the International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT) and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), being proficient in English, Danish, Norwegian and German, in addition to her native Icelandic. She was an author, magazine editor, and textbook translator. It was Olafia's ambition to bring the women of Iceland to a position of equality with men. Early life and education Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir was born at Mosfellsbær, near Reykjavík, Iceland, on 22 October 1863. Ólafía's relatives reared her after her parents' death. Her uncle was speaker of the Lower House of the National Council, and her aunt, Þorbjörg Sveinsdóttir, was prominent in public movements of every kind. She was educated in the Children's School, the Woman's School, and at Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík. In 1892, she ...
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Mosfellsbær
Mosfellsbær (, colloquially Mosó) is a town in south-west Iceland, east of the country's capital, Reykjavík. The coat of arms of the municipality is a tightly-knotted triquetra, a symbol often used in Celtic knotwork and strongly associated with the Celtic nations (which featured prominently in Celtic spirituality as well as Ancient Celtic religion in the past and, to some extent, to this day). The coat of arms might denote the Gaelic heritage of Mosfellsbær as Icelanders are also descended from Gaelic-speaking settlers who voyaged or were brought by the Norsemen in Iceland during the country's settlement in the Viking Age. Notable People * Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir (1863-1924), educator, activist, writer * Ólafur Arnalds (born 1986), musician * Axel Óskar Andrésson (born 1998), footballer * Jökull Andrésson (born 2001), footballer Twin towns – sister cities Mosfellsbær is twinned with: * Loimaa, Finland * Skien, Norway * Thisted, Denmark * Uddevalla ...
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Ingibjörg Skaptadóttir
Ingibjörg Skaptadóttir (1867 – 1945) was an Icelandic editor and publisher.Björg Einarsdóttir, Úr ævi og starfi íslenskra kvenna: útvarpserindi II. (Reykjavík: Bókrún 1986) She founded, managed and published the monthly women's magazine ''Framsókn'', in collaboration with her mother Sigríður Þorsteinsdóttir, between 1895 and 1899. The first women's magazine in Iceland, it placed focus on women's access to education and encouraged women them to demand and use their rights. She belonged to the first female editors, publishers and journalists in Iceland. She retired in 1899 and left her magazine to Jarþrúður Jónsdóttir and Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir (22 October 1863 – 21 June 1924) was an Icelandic teacher and Temperance movement, temperance worker. She traveled and lectured in different countries on behalf of the International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT) a .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingibjorg Skaptadottir 1867 ...
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Icelandic Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Iceland or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Anna Mjöll Ólafsdóttir, jazz songwriter * Anna Svanhildur Björnsdóttir, poet * Arndís Þórarinsdóttir, children's books author * Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (born 1958), novelist, poet * Auður Jónsdóttir (born 1973), novelist, playwright, journalist *Auður Laxness, writer and wife of Halldór Laxness Á * Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir (1938–2021), novelist * Áslaug Jónsdóttir, children's book author * Ágústína Jónsdóttir (born 1949), poet B * Bergljót Arnalds, children's book author * Bergþóra Árnadóttir, folk song writer *Birgitta Jónsdóttir (born 1967), politician, poet, editor *Björk, songwriter * Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir (born 1982), novelist * Brynhildur Þórarinsdóttir (born 1970), children's writer D * Drífa Viðar (1920–1971), writer, artist and educator E * Elín Briem (1856–1937), teacher, cookbook writer *Elín Eb ...
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Icelandic Non-fiction Writers
Icelandic refers to anything of, from, or related to Iceland and may refer to: *Icelandic people *Icelandic language *Icelandic orthography *Icelandic cuisine See also * Icelander (other) * Icelandic Airlines, a predecessor of Icelandair * Icelandic horse, a breed of domestic horse * Icelandic sheep, a breed of domestic sheep * Icelandic Sheepdog, a breed of domestic dog * Icelandic cattle Icelandic cattle ( ) are a breed of cattle native to Iceland. Cattle were first brought to the island during the Settlement of Iceland a thousand years ago. Icelandic cows are an especially colorful breed with a wide variety of colours and marki ..., a breed of cattle * Icelandic chicken, a breed of chicken {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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1924 Deaths
Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in China holds its 1st National Congress of the Kuomintang, first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. * January 21 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961
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1863 Births
Events January * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate States of America an official war goal. The signing proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's four million slaves and immediately frees 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as the Union Army advances. This event marks the start of America's Reconstruction era, Reconstruction Era. * January 2 – Master Lucius Tar Paint Company (''Teerfarbenfabrik Meister Lucius''), predecessor of Hoechst AG, Hoechst, as a worldwide Chemical, chemical manufacturing brand, founded in a suburb of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. * January 4 – Founding date of the New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, in a schism with the Catholic Apostolic Church in Hamburg, Germany. * January 7 – In the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Ticino, the village of Bedretto is ...
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Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir
Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir (born 1952) is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland. Professional career Sigríður Dúna completed her B.Sc. (Econ) in Anthropology in 1975 from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MA in anthropology from the University of Rochester, New York, in 1980 and a doctorate in anthropology from the same university in 1990. She also studied anthropology at L’Université de Paris VII in the winter of 1976–1977. Sigríður Dúna began teaching anthropology part-time at the University of Iceland in 1980 and did so with breaks until 1990 when she obtained tenure. She has been Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland since 2000 and was Deputy Head of the Department of Social Sciences from 2000 to 2005. From 1983 to 1987, Sigríður Dúna was a Member of Parliament for the Women's List, representing the constituency of Reykjavík. She was one of the founders of the Women's List and in 1981 of the ...
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Ólafía Johánnisdóttir @ Vaterlandsparken
Ólafía is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ólafía Einarsdóttir (1924–2017), Icelandic archaeologist *Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir (1803-1924), Icelandic teacher and temperance worker *Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir (born 7 December 1962) is an Icelandic actress. She is known for her role as Freyja in ''Trapped (Icelandic TV series), Trapped''. Early life Ólafía was born in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1962. She grew up in Reykja ... (born 1962), Icelandic actress * Ólafía Þórunn Kristinsdóttir (born 1992), Icelandic golfer {{Given name ...
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