Annestine Beyer
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4 May 1795
Annestine Beyer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anna Kirstine Margrethe Beyer 4 May 1795 |
| Died | 9 August 1884 (aged 89) |
| Academic work | |
| Notable students | Natalie Zahle |
| Main interests | Women's education |
Anna Kirstine "Annestine" Margrethe Beyer (4 May 1795 – 9 August 1884), was a Danish reform pedagogue and pioneer on women's education.[1]
Her parents were the sugar factory owner Hans Petri Beyer (ca. 1747–1806) and Elisabeth Smith Aarøe (*ca. 1763). She was educated at Døtreskolen af 1791. As an adult, she was employed as a teacher at the same school. Convinced of the importance of education of females, and eager to put her ideas of reforms in to practice, she reportedly dominated the school and placed the actual principal in the background. At that time, however, the opportunities for females to educate themselves was very limited and the institutions of learning open to them was largely limited to the capital of Copenhagen. Most female teachers in Denmark in the early 19th-century were employed as governesses rather than at schools.[1][2]