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Illis Quorum
''Illis quorum'' (''Illis quorum meruere labores'') (English: "For Those Whose Labors Have Deserved It"), is a gold medal awarded for outstanding contributions to Swedish culture, science or society. The award was introduced in 1784 by King Gustav III, and was first awarded in 1785. Prior to 1975, the medal was awarded by the King of Sweden. Illis quorum is now awarded by the Government of Sweden, and it is currently the highest award that can be conferred upon an individual Swedish citizen by the Government. It is awarded, on average, to seven people per year. , Government of Sweden official website, retrieved 5 March 2013 Selected recipients * 1848 – |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Hierta-Retzius
Anna Wilhelmina Hierta-Retzius, née ''Hierta'' (24 August 1841 – 21 December 1924), was a Swedish women's rights activist and philanthropist. She was the co-founder and secretary of the ''Married Woman's Property Rights Association'' (1873), founder and chairperson of the evening school ''Torsdagsskolan'' in 1864–1874, member of the board in the ''Bikupan'' association in 1870–1887, Vice Chairperson of the ''Married Woman's Property Rights Association'' in 1886–1893, member of the board of the ''Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minne'' (The Memorial Foundation of Lars Hierta) in 1878-1911 and its Vice Chairperson in 1911–1924, co-worker in ''Aftonbladet'' in 1884–1887, founder of the ''Adolf Fredriks arbetsstuga för barn'' (Adolf Fredrik Work House for Children) in 1887, Chairperson of the central committee of the Stockholm work houses in 1889–1909, chairperson of the Swedish National Council of Women (SKNF) in 1899–1911, Vice Chairperson of the ''International Council of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Ramstedt
Eva Julia Augusta Ramstedt (15 September 1879 – 11 September 1974) was a Swedish physicist who specialized in radiology and studied under Nobel laureate Marie Curie. She was heavily involved in women's rights in academia and was among the founding members of an association for female academics now known as Kvinnliga Akademikers Förening. Due in part to the association's efforts, several legal changes were enacted that nudged Swedish female academics closer to having the same rights as their male colleagues, including a change to the Basic Laws of Sweden in 1909 and universal suffrage in 1921. Education Ramstedt was born in 1879, in Stockholm, Sweden to a family with notable socioeconomic capital due to her father, Johan Ramstedt's, work as a politician. She attended Uppsala University as an undergraduate and graduate student, and finished her doctorate on the properties of expanding liquids at Uppsala University in 1910. After earning her doctorate, Ramstedt studied under Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Rydh
Hanna Albertina Rydh (12 February 1891 – 29 June 1964) was a Swedish archaeologist and politician for the Liberal People's Party (Sweden), Liberal People's Party. She served as a Member of Parliament in the Riksdag from 1943 to 1944 and was the 3rd President of the International Alliance of Women from 1946 to 1952. Biography Hanna Rydh was born in Stockholm to director Johan Albert Rydh and his wife Matilda Josefina Westlund. In 1919, she was married to fellow archaeologist Bror Schnittger (1882-1924). After his death, she was married in 1929 to Mortimer Munck af Rosenschöld (1887-1942) who served as Governor of Jämtland , Jämtland-Härjedalen (1931-1938). Scientist Rydh was a pupil at the Wallinska skolan in Stockholm and proceeded studying archaeology at Stockholm University. She graduated in literature history, archaeology and art history in 1915. She submitted her doctoral dissertation at Uppsala University in May 1919. Between 1916 and 1930, she and her husband cond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valfrid Palmgren
Alfhild ''Valfrid'' Matilda Palmgren, as married Palmgren Munch-Petersen (3 June 1877 – 6 December 1967), was a Swedish educator, linguist, and politician. She reformed the Swedish library policy and introduced the public library system in Sweden and Denmark. Biography Upbringing and education Valfrid Palmgren was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 3 June 1877, the second daughter of Karl Edvard A H Palmgren (1840–1910) and Ida Teresia Pohl (1853–1937), and was known as "Vava" at home. Her siblings were elder sister Signe Maria Elisabet (born 1875), Sigrid Hildegun Anna (1882–1883) and Gustaf (born 1884). She would have had another brother, but he had died by the time of her birth in 1886. Growing up, Valfrid and her sister Signe were treated as equal to all other children – regardless of gender – in accordance with their parents' educational ideas. In 1882, Valfrid and Signe were enrolled in their father's school, Palmgrenska samskolan, which was the first school in Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurore Grandien
Anna "Aurore" Leonida Grandien (4 October 1857 – 2 February 1940) was a Swedish educator, journalist, newspaper editor, and publisher. She served as the chief editor and publisher of the newspaper '. In 1927, she was awarded the Swedish royal medal Illis quorum in recognition of her career as an editor and publisher. Life Aurore Grandien was born on 4 October 1857 in Gävle, Sweden. She was the oldest child of Anna Margareta Norbohm (née Holmgren) and Martin Leonard Norbohm, a weaver at the cotton mill. As a child, Grandien had the responsibility of taking care of two younger siblings: Karl and Bertha. From 1877 to 1878, she attended the primary school teacher training college in Bollnäs. Between 1878 and 1884, she worked as a teacher in Österfärnebo and in Gävle. At a school meeting, she met who was a teacher at the Söderhamn grammar school, as well as the editor of the newspaper '. They married in 1885, and Aurore was appointed the editor. ''Söderhamns Tidning'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally, she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914. Life Early years Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was born on 20 November 1858 at Mårbacka, Värmland, Union between Sweden and Norway, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Lagerlöf was the daughter of Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf, a lieutenant in the Royal Värmland Regiment, and Louise Lagerlöf (''née'' Wallroth), whose father was a well-to-do merchant and a foundry owner (). Lagerlöf was the couple's fifth child out of six. She was born with a Hip dysplasia (human), hip injury, which was caused by detachment in the hip joint. At the age of three and a half, a sickness left her lame in both legs, alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann-Margret Holmgren
Anna Margareta "Ann-Margret" Holmgren, (née Tersmeden; 17February 185012October 1940), was a Swedish author, feminist, suffragist, and pacifist. Life She was born at Hässle Manor in Uppland, Sweden. She was the daughter of Baroness Augusta Jacquette Cederström (1818–1860) and the conservative politician and courtier, nobleman Jacob Nils Tersmeden (1795–1867), thus great-granddaughter of Jacob Tersmeden and Lona Lisa Söderhielm. In 1869, she married Frithiof Holmgren (1831–1897), medical doctor and professor at Uppsala University. Their residence, Villa Åsen in the district of Kåbo in Uppsala, was the site of discussion forums for intellectual students and a centre for radical and modern ideas. Among the modern ideas in these radical circles were the introduction of a republic, democracy, suffrage, workers' rights, contraception and atheism. This is thought to have given Holmgren radical sympathies, and she participated in the radical paper ''Verdandi'' from 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magna Sunnerdahl
Magna Charlotta Katarina Sunnerdahl (1863–1935) was a Swedish philanthropist. On inheriting a huge fortune when her father died in 1908, she founded a number of boarding schools for needy children known as ''Sunnerdahls Hemskolor''. From 1914, she made a series of donations to the city of Stockholm for the construction of low-rental apartments to house working-class families with several children. Biography Born on 26 May 1863 in Stockholm, Magna Charlotta Katarina Sunnerdahl was the daughter of the wholesale merchant Anders Petter Emil Sunnerdahl (1826–1908) and Hedda Ulrike née Francke (1836–1865). She lost her mother when she was only two in connection with the birth of her brother who died when he was 18. She lived with her father for the rest of his life in their home in Stockholm's Drottninggatan or their summer residence in Bromma. When her father died in August 1908, he had not made a will. As a result, she inherited his fortune of SEK 9 million, an enormous sum at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frigga Carlberg
Frigga Carlberg, née Anna Fredrika Lundgren (10 August 1851 – 3 October 1925), was a Swedish writer, social worker, feminist and advocate for women's suffrage. She was a member of the central committee of the National Association for Women's Suffrage from 1903 to 1921 and chair of the Gothenburg branch of the Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage from 1902 to 1921. Biography Frigga Carlberg was born in the parish of Falkenberg in Halland County, Sweden. She was born into a wealthy family but had great difficulty to persuade her father to allow her to study. She moved to Gothenburg after her marriage to the post official Andreas Carlberg (1850–1921) in 1876. Carlberg engaged in women's issues and social work from her arrival in Gothenburg, and became an important member of the Gothenburg's Women's Association (), which was founded in 1884 as the first women's association in Gothenburg. She founded , an organisation who provided homes for healthy children to parents infected wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Brändström
Elsa Brändström (26 March 1888 – 4 March 1948) was a Swedish nurse and philanthropist. She was known as the "Angel of Siberia" (german: Engel von Sibirien). Life and commitment Elsa Brändström was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was the daughter of the Military Attaché at the Swedish Embassy, Edvard Brändström (1850–1921) and his wife Anna Wilhelmina Eschelsson (1855–1913). In 1891, when she was three years old, the family returned to Sweden. In 1906, Brändström, now a general, became the Swedish Ambassador at the court of Tsar Nicholas II and returned to St Petersburg. Elsa spent her childhood in Linköping in Sweden. From 1906 to 1908, she studied at Anna Sandström Teachers Training College (''Anna Sandströms högre lärarinneseminarium'') in Stockholm but returned to St. Petersburg in 1908. Her mother died in 1913. Elsa was in St. Petersburg at the outbreak of World War I and volunteered for a position as a nurse in the Imperial Russian Army. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilie Rathou
Emilie Rathou, née ''Gustafsson'' (8 May 1862 – 12 October 1948) was a Swedish journalist, newspaper editor and elected official. She was a temperance and women's rights activist. On International Workers' Day in Stockholm 1891, she was the first woman in Sweden to demand the right for women suffrage in a public speech. She was the founder of the Swedish branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Life Maria Sandström was born in Blekinge County, Sweden. She was the daughter of the businessman Albert Gustafsson and Anna Svensdotter. She never married, but changed her surname to Rathou in 1882. She was educated as a teacher in Kalmar. Rathou taught during the period of 1882–85, she was a speaker for the International Organisation of Good Templars in 1885–1900. She was the owner and editor of the paper ''Dalmasen'' from 1890 to 1895. Temperance She founded the Östermalm branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, ''Vita Bandet'' (The White Ribbon) in 1900, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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