Margarethe Lenore Selenka

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Margarethe Lenore Selenka (née Heinemann) born Hamburg, Germany October 7, 1860 (d. 1922). German peace leader; ethnologist; archaeologist; suffragist. Organized first worldwide women's peace demonstration and million signatures for arms control, 1899; protest against Boer War, 1901; founder of WILPF. Women's and peace movement fought "for the law against the practice of violence."