Chris Bruusgaard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetChris Bruusgaard
Norwegian midwife
Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1910
Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
Date of Death: 22-Sep-2000
Profession: midwife
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Chris Bruusgaard
- Christine "Chris" Bruusgaard (14 January 1910 – 22 September 2000) was a Norwegian midwife. She was born in Kristiania to naval officer, later admiral Elias Corneliussen and Dagny Ree, and was married to physician Arne Bruusgaard.
- After studies in Scotland, England, France and Oslo, she graduated as midwife in Bergen in 1934.
- She worked at Mødrehygienekontoret in Oslo, which she chaired from 1945.
- Also, inspired by the pioneer Katti Anker Møller, she toured giving lectures on birth control, at a time when the subjects of sex information and contraception still were more or less tabooed.She was awarded the Medal of St.
- Hallvard in 1974.
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