Clara Holst

Clara Holst (4 June 1868 – 15 November 1935) was a Norwegian philologist and women's rights pioneer.

She was born in Kristiania as a daughter of physician Axel Holst (1826–1880) and German citizen Anna Mathilde Charlotte Flemming (1832–1897).

[3] She finished her secondary education as a private candidate in 1889, and had attended Nissens School.

Her academic advisor was Johan Storm, whose acquaintances enabled her to study at Cambridge in 1892, Sorbonne in 1893, Leipzig in 1897, Copenhagen in 1898–99 and Berlin in 1902–03.

Holst had short tenures as a German teacher at the Royal Frederick University and Aars og Voss school in 1904 and 1906.