Henriette Pauss

Anna Henriette "Jette" Pauss (2 April 1841 – 4 April 1918), née Anna Henriette Wegner, was a Norwegian teacher, editor, girls' education pioneer, estate owner, and humanitarian and missionary leader. 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 editor-in-chief of Santalen from 1907 to 1912, the first woman to be editor of a nationwide publication that was not specifically focused on women's issues.

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 grandfather was the Hamburg banker and politician Ludwig Erdwin Seyler and 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. They established, among other things, Norway's first girls' gymnasium or high school. She was extensively involved in other schools and organizations. She was 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. With two of her siblings she was one of the owners of Hafslund Manor, a 340,000 decare estate. She and the other owners sold Hafslund in 1894 to the consortium that became the beginning of the energy company Hafslund.

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.