Born: 20 June 1847, Norway
Died: 14 April 1916
Country most active: Norway
Also known as: Jørgine Anna Sverdrup Krog
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
Gina Krog has, more than any one else, taken up Camilla Collett’s work for the emancipation of woman. With Mr. H. E. Berner and several others she founded, in 1884, “The Norwegian Woman’s Cause Association,” and with this the organized feminist movement started in Norway. The following year she was one of the founders of “The Woman Suffrage Association,” and was its president from 1885 to 1897. In 1904 she succeeded in organizing the National Council of Women of Norway, which was, that same year, affiliated with the International Council of Women. She was the President of the N. C. W. of Norway from its formation till she died in 1916. Gina Krog’s name is attached to Nylænde, the first woman’s cause periodical. From the start of this periodical in 1887 to 1916 she was its editor, and partly through this, became the leader of the Norwegian feminist movement. Gina Krog knew how to give to Nylænde variety, life, and colour. Her intelligence never failed, her style was clear. During the twenty-nine years of her editorship she lived to see the cause for which she had fought win the victory, gradually, with fairy-like progress. Nylænde is the most important written information on the history of the Norwegian feminist movement.