Kristine Bonnevie

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Kristine Bonnevie, around 1908

Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie ( October 8, 1872 in Trondhjem to August 30, 1948 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian biologist and Norway's first female professor. Her research fields were cytology , genetics and embryology .

Life

She was the fifth of nine children of Jacob Aall Bonnevie (1838–1904) and Anne Johanne Daae (1839–1876). Her family moved to Kristiania from Trondhjem in 1886 .

Bonnevie received her examen artium in 1892. She began studying zoology in 1892 and later switched to biology. She completed this study with a doctoral thesis Undersøgelser over kimcellerne hos Enteroxenos østergreni ("Studies on the germ cells Enteroxenos østergreni") in 1906. She also studied under Arnold Lang in Zurich from 1898 to 1899, under Theodor Boveri in Würzburg from 1900 to 1901 and under Edmund B. Wilson at Columbia University in New York from 1906 to 1907. She was a professor at the Royal Friedrichs- University from 1912 to 1937 and founded the Institute of Heredity Research in 1916.

In 1911 Bonnevie became the first female member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Literature . She later founded the Norwegian Society for Women Academics, which she directed from 1922 to 1925. She also established a home for young girls in 1916 and a student residence in 1923. Kristine Bonnevie was a member of the University Broadcasting Committee from 1927 to 1937. Thor Heyerdahl was one of her students in the 1930s.

From 1909 to 1918 she was a board member of the Liberal Left Party . She was elected a member of the Kristiania City Council and served from 1908 to 1919 as a deputy for the Parliament of Norway in 1915. As deputy to Otto Bahr Halvorsen in the Gamle Aker constituency , she served again from 1916 to 1918.

Kristine Bonnevie received the Royal Medal of Merit (Kongens fortjenstmedalje) in gold in 1920, the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Saint Olav in 1946, and the " Fridtjof Nansens Prize" in 1935. The biology building on the university campus of Blinden an der University of Oslo was named after Kristine Bonnevie in her honor.

She never got married. Her sister Honoria was the wife of Vilhelm Bjerknes .

Fonts

  • [Autobiography], in: Elga Kern (Hrsg.): Leading women in Europe . [In 16 self-descriptions]. Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1928, pp. 187-198

literature

  • Ida H. Stamhuis, Arve Monsen: Kristine Bonnevie, Tine Tammes and Elisabeth Schiemann in early genetics: emerging chances for a university career for women . In: Journal of the History of Biology . 40, No. 3, 2007, pp. 427-466. doi : 10.1007 / s10739-007-9132-x . PMID 18380054 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family history "Bonnevie" incorporated into Geneanet , publicly accessible after registration under "oholzapfel" and the corresponding persons.
  2. ↑ a b c d Arne Semb-Johansson: Kristine Bonnevie in the Norsk biografisk leksikon
  3. ^ Carstens, Svein: Det Frisinnede Venstre 1909-1927 ( Norwegian ). University of Trondheim , Trondheim 1987.
  4. ^ Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie on Whonamedit.com
personal data
SURNAME Bonnevie, Kristine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonnevie, Kristine Elisabeth Heuch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian biologist and Norway's first female professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Trondhjem
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1948
Place of death Oslo