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She was a painter under her birth name Einar Wegener. [3] After transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes, stopped painting, [4] 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. [5] [6] [7] [8]
The Danish Girl is a 2015 biographical romantic drama film directed by Tom Hooper, based on the 2000 novel of the same title by David Ebershoff, and loosely inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. [5]
Bobby Wegener, American lawyer and Oklahoma's Secretary of Energy from 2008-2011; Manuela (singer) (1943–2001), German singer Doris Inge Wegener; Einar Mogens Wegener (1882–1931), birth name of transsexual pioneer Lili Elbe; Emmy Wegener (1901–1973), Dutch violinist, pianist, poet and composer
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
In 1930, following a trip to Paris, Warnekros took Lili Elbe (née Wegener) as a patient. As a result, Warnekros arranged a series of operations serving as Elbe's feminizing genitoplasty . This was following the operation performed at Magnus Hirschfeld 's Institute for Sexual Research for the removal of Elbe's testicles.
The Danish Girl is a novel by American writer David Ebershoff, published in 2000 by the Viking Press in the United States and Allen & Unwin in Australia.. The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender women to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Introduction to Man into woman: An authentic record of a change of sex; The true story of the miraculous transformation of the Danish painter Einar Wegener by Lili Elbe and Niels Hoyer, translated from the German by H. J. Stenningworth. New York: Dutton; London, Jarrold Publishers, 1933.
Einar is a Scandinavian given name deriving from the Old Norse name Einarr, which according to Guðbrandur Vigfússon is directly connected with the concept of the einherjar, warriors who died in battle and ascended to Valhalla in Norse mythology.