Margrethe Christiansen

Margrethe Sofie Charlotte Christiansen née Appel (1895–1971) was an influential Danish folk high school teacher who, together with her husband Carl Peder Ostenfeld Christiansen, taught for many years at Askov Højskole. In 1934, she and her husband were appointed leaders of Frederiksborg Højskole where she increasingly took over responsibilities for leadership until her husband's death in 1951. She later spent periods at Bordings Friskole and Snoghøj Højskolen. Active as a public speaker and writer, she is remembered for her biographies of her schoolteacher parents.

Biography Born on 20 August 1895 in Askov, Vejen Municipality, in the south of Jutland, Margrethe Sofie Charlotte Appel was the daughter of Jacob Christian Lindberg Appel (1866–-1931), a folk high school headmaster and later a minister, and Ingeborg Schrøder (1868–1948), an early female gymnastics teacher. and Jacob Appel — en mand og hans arv (1970). In 1961, she was honoured as a Knight of the Dannebrog.

Margrethe Christiansen died in Gentofte on 1 May 1971.