BANG, NINA HENRIETTE WENDELINE (1866 1928), Danish politician, was born at Copenhagen, where, in 1894, she graduated M.A. She married a politician, Gustav Bang, who died in the year 1915. Devoting herself to economic studies, she was active as a Social Democrat in politics and journalism, and in 1918 became a member of the Landsthing (Upper House). In 1924 she joined the first Danish Social Democratic Govern ment under Theodore Stauning as Minister of Education thus becoming the first woman cabinet minister in the world. With the support of Danish and foreign scientific funds Mrs. Bang commenced, in 1906, the publication of a comprehensive work about the dues on the Sound, Tables of Shipping and Goods Transport on the Sound, 1497-1660 (1906-22). She died in Copen hagen March 25, 1928.