Alette Schreiner facts for kids
Alette Schreiner, born Falch (May 18, 1873 – December 26, 1951), was an important Norwegian researcher. She studied people's bodies and how they developed.
Early Life and Family
Alette Falch was born in Christiania (now Oslo) in 1873. Her father, Ingvald Falch, was a judge, and her mother was Alette Louise Aubert. Alette grew up in a town called Eidsvoll. She had a younger brother, Ingvald Falch Jr., who also became a judge.
In 1900, Alette married Kristian Schreiner, who was also a scientist. They had several children. One of their sons, Johan Schreiner, grew up to be a well-known historian. Another son, Fredrik Schreiner, had a son named Per Schreiner, who became an important economist and public servant.
Education and Research
Alette Schreiner finished high school in 1892. She then went on to study medicine and became a doctor in 1899. After working at a hospital, she traveled abroad to learn more about illnesses affecting children and women.
Even though she didn't work as a professor at a university, Alette did a lot of research with her husband, Kristian Schreiner, who was a professor. Together, they wrote textbooks about the human body for university students. They also wrote a simpler textbook for school students in 1923. One of her most popular books was Slegtslivet hos menneskene, which means "Family Life in Humans."
Studies on People and Society
In the 1920s, Alette and Kristian Schreiner started focusing more on physical anthropology. This is the study of human physical features, like body measurements and how different groups of people look.
Alette wrote several books about her findings. For example, she wrote Antropologische Studien an norwegische Frauen (Anthropological Studies on Norwegian Women) in 1924. She also wrote about people from Northern Norway and other local studies.
It's important to know that Alette Schreiner and her husband did not support the harmful ideas of racial hygiene that were popular with the Nazis. These ideas wrongly claimed that some groups of people were better than others based on their race. In fact, during World War II, when Nazis occupied Norway, her husband and son were even sent to a prison camp called Grini concentration camp. While Alette Schreiner believed that all human groups had a mix of different genetic traits, she strongly disagreed with the cruel and unscientific ideas of Nazi racial theories.
Alette Schreiner also helped create Blindern studenthjem, which was the only student dorm at the University of Oslo's Blindern campus. She passed away in Oslo in December 1951.
