Henriette Pauss

Henriette Pauss
Portrait owned by Oslo Museum
Born	Anna Henriette Wegner (1841-04-02)2 April 1841 Frogner Manor, Aker
Died	4 April 1918(1918-04-04) (aged 77) Christiania
Resting place	Vår Frelsers gravlund
Known for	Teacher, editor and humanitarian and missionary leader
Spouse	Bernhard Pauss
Children	Nikolai Nissen Paus, Augustin Paus, George Wegner Paus, Henriette Wegner Paus, Karoline Louise Paus
Parents	Benjamin Wegner (father) Henriette Seyler (mother)

Anna Henriette "Jette" Pauss (2 April 1841 – 4 April 1918), née Anna Henriette Wegner, was a Norwegian teacher, editor, girls' education pioneer, humanitarian and missionary leader and estate owner. With her husband Bernhard Pauss, she was a major figure in advancing girls' education in Norway in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

She was born at Frogner Manor and was the youngest daughter of the mining and timber magnate Benjamin Wegner and the banking heir, philanthropist and early women's rights pioneer Henriette Seyler, who was a co-owner of her family's bank, Berenberg Bank. Her parents moved to Norway in the early 1820s when her father became managing director and co-owner of Blaafarveværket, the country's largest mining company and industrial enterprise. She was a goddaughter of Countess Karen Wedel-Jarlsberg and Prime Minister Frederik Stang. Her great-grandfather was the theatre director Abel Seyler.

In the 1860s she became a teacher at Nissen's Girls' School, Norway's preeminent educational institution for girls and women. In 1876 she married the school's owner and headmaster Bernhard Pauss, a member of the noted Paus family. She served as the school's headmistress from 1885 to 1909. She was extensively involved in other schools and organizations. She was editor-in-chief of the journal Santalen and one of the key leaders of the Norwegian Santal Mission that ran schools, hospitals and social projects in India; she was the first woman to be a national board member of a major Christian organization in Norway. She was one of the co-owners of Hafslund Manor, a 340,000 decare estate, with two of her siblings until 1894.

She was the mother of the surgeon and President of the Norwegian Red Cross Nikolai Nissen Paus, of the industrial leader Augustin Paus and of the lawyer, mountaineer and business executive George Wegner Paus.