Clara Ragaz
| Clara Ragaz | |
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Clara and Leonhard Ragaz, 1923
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| Born |
Clara Nadig 30 March 1874 Chur, Swizterland |
| Died | 7 October 1957 (aged 83) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Other names | Clara Ragaz-Nadig |
| Occupation | teacher, pacifist |
| Years active | 1892-1946 |
Clara Ragaz (30 March 1874-7 October 1957) was one of the most noted Swiss feminist pacifists of the first half of the twentieth century. She was a founder of the Swiss Federation of Abstinent Women, an organization which supported the temperance movement in Switzerland. She served as the co-International chair of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) from 1929 to 1946.
Clara Nadig was born on 30 March 1974 in Chur, in the Grisons canton of Swizterland to Christina (née Plattner) and Johann Josua Nadig. She studied to be a teacher, completing her training in 1892 at the normal school in Aarau.
Nadig first taught in England and France before returning to Switzerland and marrying the social activist Leonhard Ragaz in 1901. She took a teaching position in the Engadin valley, while her husband served as the chief Protestant cleric of Chur between 1902 and 1906. In 1902, she was one of the founders of the Swiss Federation of Abstinent Women (German: Schweiz Bundes abstinenter Frauen), an arm of the international temperance movement in Switzerland. In 1907, she joined the feminist organization Union for the Advancement of Women (German: Union für Frauenbestrebungen), when the couple were in Bern and her husband served as a pastor for the Basel Minster. In 1908, they moved to Zürich, where her husband was engaged as a professor of theology at the University of Zurich. Ragaz continued teaching in Zürich and joined the buyer's collective known as the Social Buyer's League (German: Sozialen Käuferliga) and remained a part of the group until 1915.
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