Nanna Storjohann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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proponent for public morals
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Place of Birth: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
About Nanna Storjohann
- Nanna Storjohann (née Nanna Holmboe; 28 August 1838 – 28 May 1898) was a Norwegian proponent for public morals. She was born in Bergen to rector Hans Holmboe and Valgjerd Endriette Løberg.
- She married prison and seamen's priest and headmaster Johan Storjohann in 1862, and was the mother of Marie Michelet.
- The couple spent four years at the Norwegian seamen's mission station in London from 1868, and thereafter settled in Christiania, Norway.
- Nanna Storjohann was engaged in social work, such as visiting and follow-up of female prisoners.
- She is regarded among the pioneer proponents for public morality in Kristiania.
- She died in Kristiania in 1898.
- In 1912 the women's dosshouse "Nanna Storjohanns Minde" was established in Kristiania by her successor Ólafia Jóhannsdóttir.
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