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Karin Bruzelius met the judge when she was young
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a feminist icon who paved the way for other women.
The judge himself was inspired by Sweden and lived here for some time in the 1960s.
– She learned Swedish and had her daughter Jane in Swedish kindergarten, says Karin Bruzelius, whose family was close to her.
After a life as a women’s rights activist and 27 years on the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, passed away. The liberal judge who has achieved hero status will be remembered for her strong personality, her pathos for justice and her work for women’s rights.
Karin Bruzelius met “the famous RBG” in the 1960s. She then came to Lund to collaborate with Karin’s father Anders Bruzelius, a counselor and lawyer at Lund University.
– He was in Lund a whole summer and spent a lot of time with our family. She became friends with my father and had a close relationship with my mother. Their daughter Jane went to Swedish kindergarten, says Karin Bruzelius.
Ruth also learned Swedish.
– She read fluent in Swedish and then accentuated her comments by adding a Swedish word, says Kjell Å Modéer, professor emeritus at Lund University, who met her in the 1980s.
Karin Bruzelius’s family was close to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
I felt love for Sweden
The feminist icon developed a great love for Sweden, which he saw as a model for his home country, the United States.
– She was very inspired to come to Sweden and see that we had advanced more in rights when we had children, that there were opportunities for childcare and rights in living together.
In 1969, she was appointed an honorary doctor at Lund University along with Anders Bruzelius. According to Carina Bergfelt, a former US correspondent for SVT, Lund’s honorary doctoral ring of about 20 was the only one she wore every day.
– In Sweden, it was something when they treated her as if the water was not worth it in the United States. She was incredibly proud of this. When I met her, she showed me her doctor’s ring and told me how much Sweden meant to her, she tells SVT Nyheter.
Photo: Lund University
Ruth Bader Ginsburg during her stay in Lund.
Known in Sweden last year
She and her family have kept in touch over the years. Karin Bruzelius, who is a lawyer and today a judge in Norway’s highest court, met Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Sweden last year. Then she came here to be made an honorary doctor – 50 years as an honorary doctor in Lund.
– It was great to see her again. I have followed her career and she has always been an ideal for me, says Karin Bruzelius.
She will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a straight-backed woman who always thought before she said something and made people listen when she spoke.
That she no longer exists is a loss to the United States and the world, says Karin Bruzelius.
– It is a great sadness that he passed away. She was an important lawyer. But I am deeply grateful for how you inspired me with your work advocating for women to be treated equally as men.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of pancreatic cancer.
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