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| birth_name = Estrid Lassen<br />
| birth_date = 27 November 1891<br />
| birth_place = [[Copenhagen]]<br />
| death_date = {{d-da|17 August 1977|27 November 1891}}<br />
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'''Estrid Dane''' (born '''Estrid Lassen'''; married name: '''Estrid Reichenheim'''; 27 November 1891 – 17 August 1977) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[Pediatrics|paediatrician]] and [[Alternative medicine|healer]]. She worked with young children in [[London]] and with [[Mother Teresa]] in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]. <br />
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She was born on 27 November 1891 in Copenhagen. Her parents were Ebba von Schau and Axel Frederik Julius Christian Lassen. Her father had been married before to Jane Crawford Hewetson who had died in 1885. In 1914 she married Georg Henning von Oertzen and that marriage was dissolved in 1922.<ref name=danbio>{{Cite web|title=Estrid Dåne {{!}} lex.dk|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Estrid_D%C3%A5ne|access-date=2021-02-05|website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|language=da}}</ref> <br />
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On 27 February 1929 she remarried in London.<ref name=danbio/> She had married a German Jew named Peter Reichenheim. He was an engineer and they were living in England in the 1930s where anti-semitism was not unusual. To avoid this the two of them changed their name to Dane.<ref name=graveref>{{Cite web|title=Estrid Dane|url=https://www.gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=estriddane|access-date=2021-02-05|website=www.gravsted.dk}}</ref><br />
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[[File:Estrid Dane in the Mercury News in 1943 re rickets.jpg|thumb|left|Estrid Dane in 1943 conducting therapy for [[rickets]]]]<br />
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In 1938, she began to train in the techniques of [[Detleff Neumann-Neurode|Neumann-Neurode-Heilgymnastik]]. She had been convinced of the technique's success when it had been used to heal her own children. Later, with the support of the [[British War Relief Society of America]] she started a clinic at [[St Mary's Hospital, London|St. Marys Hospital]] in [[East London]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-I-XEN-GBR-APHS346267-WWII-British-Isles/de5ecd0d541344e6889d641b66c0f117|title=WWII England London Childrens Clinic|website=AP Images|access-date=2017-08-19}}</ref> She had been advised to not mention that it was a German therapy during the war but she had refused to remove the attribution to the technique's developer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-38936669.html|title=Mrs. Dane läßt Baby turnen - DER SPIEGEL 2/1947|last=Germany|first=SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg|website=www.spiegel.de|language=de|access-date=2017-08-19}}</ref> She was also featured in the book the ''[[City of Joy]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The City of Joy|url=https://archive.org/details/cityofjoy000lapi|url-access=registration|last=Lapierre|first=Dominique|publisher=DoubleDay & Company, INC|year=1985|isbn=0-385-18952-4|location=|pages=}}</ref><br />
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Her husband died in Mallorca in 1958.<ref name=danbio/><br />
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A 1969 BBC profile of her work featured an interview with a surgeon who said: "There's no question about what she achieves, but I'm damned if I know how she does it".<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC One London - 4 September 1969 - BBC Genome|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1969-09-04|access-date=2021-02-05|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><br />
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When she was in her seventies she began to lose her sight, but undeterred she went to Calcutta for two years where she worked with [[Mother Teresa]]. She used her time to train the nuns there in the techniques she had learned to assist children.<ref name=danbio/><br />
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She died on 17 August 1977 in [[Frederiksberg]].<ref name=graveref/><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/16184686-87a5-4b8e-9cc5-27ab210ff557 National archives]<br />
*[http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6cd32972 BFI]<br />
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