Jutta Bojsen-Møller

Jutta Bojsen-Møller born Bojsen (1837–1927) was a Danish high school proponent, a women's rights activist and a member of the Danish Women's Society which she headed from 1894 to 1910.

Biography 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). In 1857, she married the parish priest Otto Ditlev Møller (1814–1892) with whom she had eight children.

Thanks to her friendship with the poet Jens Christian Hostrup and his wife Elisabeth, both of whom were active in the Danish Women's Society, she became increasingly interested in the women's movement. 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. She took an early interest in women's voting rights, becoming a member of the Women's Society's Voting Rights Committee when it was founded in 1898. Only in 1906 did she and Louise Nørlund succeed in making women's suffrage an official item on the organizations agenda.

Awards In recognition of her services, in 1925 she was honoured with the gold Medal of Merit.