Matilde Bajer

{{Short description|Danish women's rights activist and pacifist}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Pauline Matilde Theodora Bajer

| image = Matilde Bajer by Christensen & Morange.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Matilde Bajer {{circa|1890}}

| birth_name = Pauline Matilde Theodora Schlüter

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1840|01|04|df=y}}

| birth_place = Frederikseg, Herlufmagle Sogn, Næstved Municipality, Denmark.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1934|03|04|1840|01|04|df=y}}

| death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark

| nationality = Danish

| other_names =

| spouse(s) = Fredrik Bajer

| occupation = Feminist, Pacifist

| known_for =

}}

Pauline Matilde Theodora Bajer (4 January 1840 – 4 March 1934) was a Danish women's rights activist and pacifist.

Life

Pauline Matilde Theodora Schlüter was born on 4 January 1840 in Frederikseg, Herlufmagle Sogn, Næstved Municipality, Denmark.

Her father was a landowner. She married Fredrik Bajer, whom she had known since adolescence, and convinced him that women should have an equal position to men in society.

For a short period Mathilde Bajer was chairperson of the Danish Women's Society (Dansk Kvindesamfund), which she helped found in 1871.

In 1885 she was co-founder and a leading member of the political wing of the Women's Progress Association (Kvindelig Fremskridtsforening) which fought for women's suffrage, and succeeded in 1915.{{sfn|Schlüter|2015}}

Mathilde and her husband always supported each other, and Mathilde Bajer was active in the Danish Peace Society (Dansk Fredsforening) to which Fredrik Bajer was dedicated.{{sfn|Schlüter|2015}}

The English Quaker and pacifist Priscilla Hannah Peckover met Fredrik and Matilde Bajer at a Nordic Women's meeting in 1888.

Peckover paid Matilde Bajer's expenses so that she could participate in international peace meetings.{{sfn|Peckover, Priscilla Hannah, Danske Fredsakademi}}

Mathilde Bajer died on 4 March 1934 in Copenhagen.{{sfn|Schlüter|2015}}