Kirsten Auken
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Kirsten Auken was a Danish
Denmark
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 politician
Politician
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 and one of the leading proponents of sex education
Sex education
Sex education refers to formal programs of instruction on a wide range of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, reproductive health, emotional relations, reproductive rights and responsibilities, abstinence, contraception, and...

 in Denmark. She was the mother of politicians Margrete Auken
Margrete Auken
Margrete Auken is a politician, and member of the Danish socialist party Socialistisk Folkeparti , and the sister of Svend Auken...

 and Svend Auken
Svend Auken
Svend Gunnarsen Auken was a Danish politician. He represented the Social Democrats as a member of the Danish parliament from 1971 until his death....

.

Biography

She was born in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
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 to a professor of Dermatology
Dermatology
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 Svend Lomholt
Svend Lomholt
Svend Lomholt was a Danish veterinarian and dermatologist.He published a number of journals of his works, in 1924, he published a report at The University Institute for Theoretical Physics and Pathological Institute, Municipal Hospital, in Copenhagen about the metal composition in rodents and...

 (1888-1949) and Marie Kirstine Siegumfeldt Beck (1888-1920).

She died in 1968.

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