Severine Casse

Severine Andrea Casse née Engelbreth (1805–1898) was a Danish women's rights activist and an influential member of the Danish Women's Society. Intent on social and political reforms for women, she successfully fought for a wife's right to dispose of her own earnings.

Biography Born on 15 November 1805 in Lyderslev on the Stevns Peninsula, Severine Andrea Engelbreth was the daughter of the provost Wolf Frederik Engelbreth (1771–1862) and Kirstine Marie Petersen (1779–1868). Thanks to her father, she came into contact with many of Zealand's religious figures. In 1930, she married Andreas Lorentz Casse, the Danish minister of justice, with whom she had seven children. When she was 90, she was granted the status of honorary member.

Severine Casse died in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen on 20 October 1898.