Anne Margrethe Qvitzow

She was given an unusually high education: at this time, female members of the Danish nobility were normally barely taught to read and write.

However, as showed herself to be very gifted early on, her parents hired private teachers to educate her in Danish, German, Latin, Greek, French, grammar, logic, rhetoric, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, musical science, and also begun studies in Hebrew.

In 1673, Qvitzow rejected the idea that her learning should be considered in any way remarkable because of her sex, and stated that if women were given the same education as men, they would prove themselves to be just as capable.

Bishop Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764) later called her “Heroina longe eruditissima” and compared her to Dutch artist and poet Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678).

[5] Qvitzow was included in contemporary dictionaries and work of female scholars and learned women, (gynæcée) by Matthias Henriksen Schacht (1660-1700), Albert Lauritsen Thura (1700–1740) and Fr.