Sara Christie

Sara Stockfleth Christie (6 June 1857 – 11 October 1948) was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Conservative Party.

Personal life She was born in Trondhjem as a daughter of Edvard Christie (1812–1896) and Anne Sophie Knagenhjelm (1821–1907). Her father was a grandson of David Werner Christie, and as such a grandnephew of Werner Hosewinckel Christie and a second cousin of physicist Hartvig Caspar Christie, architect Christian Christie, politician Hans Langsted Christie and writer Johan Koren Christie.

Career She took a school teacher's exam in 1879, and worked at Thora Storms pikeskole in Trondhjem from 1879 to 1895. She took several short breaks to conduct further studies abroad, in continental Europe. In 1895 she established Frk. Christies skole, a ten-year school for girls which gained the right to hold secondary school examinations from 1897. She managed this school from 1895 to 1918. but six years after Anna Rogstad became the first female deputy member of Parliament. Christie, Rogstad and Platou all belonged to the Conservative Party.

She died in October 1948.