Alli Nissinen
Alli Nissinen | |
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Member of Parliament | |
In office 1907–1909 | |
Constituency | West Kuopio |
Personal details | |
Born | 26 December 1866 Iisalmi, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire |
Died | 11 April 1926 Helsinki, Finland | (aged 59)
Political party | Young Finnish Party |
Alina Augusta Nissinen (26 December 1866 – 11 April 1926) was a Finnish educator and politician. A member of the Young Finnish Party, she was elected to Parliament in 1907 as one of the first group of female MPs. She remained an MP until 1909.
Biography
[edit]Nissinen was born in Iisalmi in 1866.[1] After attending a girls' school, she trained to be a teacher.[1] She taught geography and religion at the Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu between 1889 and 1899, and the Helsingin Uusi yhteiskoulu from 1898 until 1916.[1] She also ran her own Alli Nissinen School of Preparation between 1889 and her death, and served as chair of the Teachers' Association.[1]
She served as vice-president of the Naisasialiitto Unioni women's organisation and was chair of the Martha organisation. In 1903 became editor-in-chief of the organisation's Emänttä magazine, a role she held for the rest of her life.[1] She also wrote several children's books, plays and poetry.[2]
Nissinen contested the 1907 elections on the Young Finnish Party's list in West Kuopio and was one of 19 women elected to parliament. She was re-elected in 1908, serving until May 1909.[1] During her time in parliament she sat on the Committee on Legal Affairs.[1]
She died in Helsinki in 1926.[1]
References
[edit]- 1866 births
- 1926 deaths
- People from Iisalmi
- People from Kuopio Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
- Young Finnish Party politicians
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (1907–1908)
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (1908–1909)
- Finnish schoolteachers
- Finnish trade unionists
- Finnish journalists
- Finnish children's writers
- Finnish women children's writers
- Women members of the Parliament of Finland
- 20th-century Finnish women politicians