Lili Elbe
1882 – 1931 · aged 49
Danish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931)
- Born
- 28 Dec 1882 · Vejle
- Died
- 13 Sept 1931 · Dresden
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- 28 Dec 1882BornBorn in Vejle
- 13 Sept 1931DiedDied in Dresden
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1882 – 1931).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
Biography
Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
Elbe was a painter under her male birth name. After transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes, stopped painting, and later adopted the surname Elbe. She was the first known recipient of a uterus transplant in an attempt to achieve pregnancy, but died due to the subsequent complications.
The UK and US versions of her semi-autobiographical narrative were published posthumously in 1933 under the title Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. A film inspired by her life, The Danish Girl, was released in 2015. An opera based on her life, Lili Elbe, composed by Tobias Picker, premiered in 2023.
Text from the Wikipedia article Lili Elbe, CC BY-SA 4.0
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