Tinne Vammen

Tinne Vammen (November 23, 1942 – October 5, 2016) was a Danish historian, considered a pioneer in women's history research in her country.

Early life and education Tinne Vammen was born in Hillerød, Denmark, in 1942. Growing up in nearby Lillerød, she was one of five children born to Knud Ejnar Daniel Knudsen, an agribusinessman and local Venstre party politician, and Emilie Christiane Mouritzen, a former nursing student.

Career Vammen is considered a pioneer in Danish women's history research.

From 1982 to 1984, she served on the editorial board of the journal Kvinders, which promoted women's research. Due to her gender and the subject matter she worked on, she faced difficulties throughout her career, and much of her research was self-financed. Nevertheless, she also worked to increase the participation of female students in history programs. She also worked on an effort to introduce women's history into high school curricula in the early 1980s, and collaborated on women's history initiatives across the Nordic countries.

Her first book, Rent og urent (1986), comprised a groundbreaking discussion of women in the Capital Region, focusing on housemaids and their mistresses, from 1880 to 1920. Her study of the was published in 2002 as Midlertidigt ophold. Kvindehjemmet i 100 år. She co-edited the anthologies På tröskeln till välfärden (1995), Charitable Women (1998), and Den privat-offentliga gränsen (1999). She also contributed 86 biographies to the Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon, a collection of Danish women's biographies.

Personal life and death In 1966, she married fellow academic Hans Nicolaj Møller Vammen. They had two children, Morten (born 1967) and Ida (born 1979), before dissolving their marriage in 1981.

She died in 2016, of cancer, at age 73.