Jutta Bojsen-Møller

[1][2] Born in Store Heddinge on the Danish island of Zealand, Jutta Kunigunde Bojsen was the daughter of Frederik Engelhardt Boisen (1808–1882), a parish priest, and the writer Eline Birgitte Heramb (1813–1871).

[1] One of a family of 11, she was brought up in Skørpinge near Slagelse where her father was appointed as parish priest shortly after her birth.

[1] After her husband died in 1892, she became the matron at the folk high school in Lyngby, adopting the same position from 1905 to 1909 at Rødkilde Højskole on the island of Møn, founded by her brother Frede Bojsen.

In 1894, encouraged by Astrid Hostrup who was active both as a folk high school matron and as a member of the Women's Society, Bojsen-Møller joined the organization and was immediately elected president, a post she kept until 1910.

Only in 1906 did she and Louise Nørlund succeed in making women's suffrage an official item on the organizations agenda.