# Anna Bugge > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anna_Bugge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anna_Bugge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bugge > Source revision: 1347279473 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Norwegian and Swedish feminist activist, lawyer, diplomat and politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Anna Wicksell (Anna Bugge, Anna Bugge Wicksell) | honorific_suffix = | image = Anna Bugge.jpg | caption = | office1 = 4th President of the [Norwegian Association for Women's Rights](/source/Norwegian_Association_for_Women's_Rights) | term_start1 = 1888 | term_end1 = 1889 | predecessor1 = [Ragna Nielsen](/source/Ragna_Nielsen) | successor1 = [Ragna Nielsen](/source/Ragna_Nielsen) | birth_date = 17 November 1862 | death_date = {{Death date and age|1928|2|19|1862|11|17|mf=y}} | party = | spouse = [Knut Wicksell](/source/Knut_Wicksell) | occupation = Lawyer, diplomat and politician }} '''Anna Bugge Wicksell''' (17 November 1862 – 19 February 1928) was a [Norwegian](/source/Norway) and [Swedish](/source/Sweden) [feminist](/source/feminist), [lawyer](/source/lawyer), [diplomat](/source/diplomat) and [politician](/source/politician). She helped found the debate society Skuld in high school, and served as president of the [Norwegian Association for Women's Rights](/source/Norwegian_Association_for_Women's_Rights) (January 1888 till June 1889) after the debate on morality brought on by Ragna Nielsen's resignation. She moved to Sweden in 1889 and became a lawyer and Swedish diplomat, and the first female member of the [League of Nations](/source/League_of_Nations)' permanent mandate commission. ==Life== [[File:Suffrage Alliance Congress, London 1909.jpg|thumb|left|[Fifth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance](/source/Fifth_Conference_of_the_International_Woman_Suffrage_Alliance) with [Millicent Fawcett](/source/Millicent_Fawcett) presiding, London 1909. Top row from left: [Thora Daugaard](/source/Thora_Daugaard) (Denmark), Louise Qvam (Norway), [Aletta Jacobs](/source/Aletta_Jacobs) (Netherlands), [Annie Furuhjelm](/source/Annie_Furuhjelm) (Finland), Madame Mirowitch (Russia), [Käthe Schirmacher](/source/K%C3%A4the_Schirmacher) (Germany), Madame Honneger, unidentified. Bottom left: Unidentified, Anna Wicksell Bugge (Sweden), [Anna Howard Shaw](/source/Anna_Howard_Shaw) (USA), [Millicent Fawcett](/source/Millicent_Fawcett) (Presiding, England), [Carrie Chapman Catt](/source/Carrie_Chapman_Catt) (USA), [F. M. Qvam](/source/Fredrikke_Qvam) (Norway), [Anita Augspurg](/source/Anita_Augspurg) (Germany).]] Bugge was born in [Egersund](/source/Egersund), [Norway](/source/Norway). Her particular interest was in concrete reforms; she was more occupied with the social and economic reasons for the suppression of women, rather than spiritual discussions on morality and codes of conduct. In articles from the [NAWR](/source/The_Norwegian_Association_for_Women's_Rights) periodical ''[Nylænde](/source/Nyl%C3%A6nde)'', she emphasized women's economic independence as a necessity for their liberation. In spirit of this she was also occupied with education and organizing of women. She was one of the teachers in the "free education for women", which was initiated by other feminists. She held lectures on women's professional education and stressed that women should be allowed as apprentices in craftsmanship. In ''Nylænde'', she spoke warm-heartedly about a [pension fund](/source/pension) for housekeepers. Bugge participated actively promoting [women's suffrage](/source/women's_suffrage), and in 1888 she traveled around in Norway as a member of the Kvindestemmeretsforening (Association for Women's Suffrage) to further promote this cause. In 1889, Bugge "united" with [Knut Wicksell](/source/Knut_Wicksell) without an official marriage{{Cite news|url=https://skbl.se/sv/artikel/AnnaBuggeWicksell|title=skbl.se - Anna Kristine Margrete Bugge Wicksell|access-date=2018-11-05}} and left Norway for [Sweden](/source/Sweden), her new husband's homeland. She became a [Candidate of Law](/source/Candidate_of_Law) at the University of Lund, Sweden, in 1911. As a result of her political work there, she became a member of the [League of Nations](/source/League_of_Nations)' [Permanent Mandates Commission](/source/Permanent_Mandates_Commission) in 1921, their first female member. She there represented Sweden as a diplomat. In [Sweden](/source/Sweden) a memorial coin with her motif is in the planning. ==References== {{Reflist}} *[http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Anna_Bugge_Wicksell/utdypning Store Norske Leksikon] {{Commons category|position=left|Anna Bugge-Wicksell}} == Further reading == * {{SKBL}} {{Presidents of NKF}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bugge, Anna}} Category:Norwegian women's rights activists Category:1862 births Category:1928 deaths Category:People from Egersund Category:Norwegian feminists Category:Norwegian suffragists Category:Swedish suffragists Category:Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people Category:20th-century Swedish women lawyers Category:Norwegian emigrants to Sweden Category:20th-century Swedish women politicians --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Anna Bugge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bugge) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bugge?action=history)). 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