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Märta Arbin
Märta is a Swedish feminine given name. The name is often a diminutive of Margareta. Individuals bearing the name Märta include: * Märta of Denmark (1277–1341), Queen consort of Sweden * Märta Adlerz (1897–1979), Swedish diver * Märta Allertz (1628–c. 1677), royal mistress of Charles X of Sweden * Märta Andersson (born 1925), Swedish gymnast *Märta Berendes (1639–1717), Swedish Baroness and diarist *Märta Björnbom (1888–1973), Swedish lawyer * Märta Blomstedt (1899–1982), Finnish architect * Märta Bucht (1882–1962), Swedish schoolteacher, suffragist and peace activist *Märta Dorff (1909–1990), Swedish actress * Märta Eketrä (1851–1894), Swedish lady-in-waiting to Sophia of Nassau * Märta Johansson (1907–1998), Swedish diver * Märta Leijonhufvud (1520–1584), Swedish noble; sister of Queen Margaret Leijonhufvud *Märtha Leth (1877-1953), Swedish pharmacist * Märta Ljungberg (1656–1741), Swedish innkeeper * Märta Norberg (born 1922), Swed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite) in minute crystalline form, which has deposited in concentric layers. The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other shapes, known as baroque pearls, can occur. The finest quality of natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty for many centuries. Because of this, ''pearl'' has become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable and valuable. The most valuable pearls occur spontaneously in the wild, but are extremely rare. These wild pearls are referred to as ''natural'' pearls. ''Cultured'' or ''farmed'' pearls from pearl oysters and freshwater mussels make up the majority of those currently sold. Imitation pearls are also widely s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Bucht
Märta Johanna Bucht (1882–1962) was a Swedish schoolteacher, suffragist and peace activist. From 1908, she chaired the Luleå branch of the Swedish Association for Women's Suffrage (FKPR). She was also active in the peace movement. In 1919, she was one of the 12 Swedes who attended the Zurich conference where the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was established. Throughout her life, Bucht supported the temperance movement, becoming a member of the IOGT-NTO. Biography Born on 23 October 1882 in Luleå, Märta Johanna Bucht was the daughter of the cartographer and town planner Gustaf Wilhelm Bucht (1849–1894) and his wife Rosina (Rosa) Maria née Högström (1853–1894). She was the fourth in a family of six children. After completing her schooling at a private school in Luleå, she worked for several years as a governess in Malmberget. Following her father's death in 1894, her former headmistress covered the cost of her training as a schoolteacher at the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Ulfsdotter
Margareta "Märta" Ulfsdotter, in Norway known as ''Merete Ulvsdatter'' (1319-1371), was a Swedish noble and lady in waiting. She was the daughter of Saint Bridget of Sweden and the head lady in waiting of Margaret I, Queen of Denmark. Life She was the daughter of Saint Bridget of Sweden and Ulf Gudmarsson of Ulvåsa. In 1337, she married the Norwegian noble Sigvid Ribbing (d. 1345). After the death of her first spouse, she married the Swedish noble Knut Algotsson. She was the mother of Abbess Ingegerd Knutsdotter of Vadstena. Between 1366 and 1371, she was the head of the court of Queen Margaret, whom she raised as the foster child with her daughter Ingegerd. According to reports, she frequently used spanking Spanking is a form of corporal punishment involving the act of striking, with either the palm of the hand or an implement, the buttocks of a person to cause physical pain. The term spanking broadly encompasses the use of either the hand or im .... it was said, that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Torén
Märta Torén (21 May 1925 – 19 February 1957) was a Swedish stage and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Torén's father was a Swedish military officer, and for three years, during World War II, she was a secretary in the Swedish war office. After studying at the Stockholm Royal Dramatic Theater's Royal Dramatic Training Academy, Torén began her career on the stage and from 1947 she appeared in films. She appeared on the cover of the June 13 issue of ''Life Magazine'' in 1949. Torén appeared in 11 American film productions during her brief career. One of her roles was opposite Humphrey Bogart in ''Sirocco'' (1951), and she also co-starred with Dana Andrews in ''Assignment – Paris! ''Assignment – Paris!'' is a 1952 American Cold War film noir directed by Robert Parrish and starring Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders and Audrey Totter. Premise Paris-based ''New York Herald Tribune'' reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) i ...'' (1952). On Sunday February 17, 1957 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Tikkanen
Märta Eleonora Tikkanen (born 3 April 1935) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer. Biography Born in Helsinki, she has worked as a reporter for ''Hufvudstadsbladet'' from 1956 to 1961. She graduated from the University of Helsinki, Master of Arts in 1958 and received a Master of Philosophy in 1961. Tikkanen was married to writer Henrik Tikkanen. A film based on her book ''Manrape'' (''Män kan inte våldtas'', "Men Can't Be Raped"), directed by Jörn Donner, was released in 1978. Bibliography *nu imorron (1970) *Ingenmansland (1972) *Vem bryr sig om Doris Mihailov (1974) *Män kan inte våldtas ''Manrape'' ( sv, Män kan inte våldtas, ) is a 1975 novel by Märta Tikkanen. The book launched Tikkanen's career and placed her in the centre of an ongoing debate about gender roles in the Nordic countries. The book was made into the 1978 fi ... (1975) *Århundradets kärlekssaga (1978) *Mörkret som ger glädjen djup (1981) *Sofias egen bok (1982) *Rödluvan (1986) *Storfångar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Strömberg
Märta Strömberg (1921 – 2012) was a Swedish archaeologist. Life and work Märta Strömberg was one of the first female archaeologists to enter the academic realm in Sweden. She began her career as a researcher at Lund University and stayed her entire professional career at the same university. She continued to work sporadically at the university also after her retirement. She has been described as one of the foremost experts in Nordic prehistory in Sweden, but had a broad base of knowledge and expertise stretching from knowledge about the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. Her research was based on a systems theory Systems theory is the interdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or human-made. Every system has causal boundaries, is influenced by its context, defined by its structu ... approach and focused on explaining social and economic structures by studying patterns of settlements in the landscape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Helena Reenstierna
Märta Helena Reenstierna (16 September 1753 – 12 January 1841; married name: von Schnell), known as ''Årstafrun'' (The Årsta lady), was a Swedish diary writer. Her diaries were written in the period 1793–1839, and are kept at the archives of Nordiska museet in Stockholm. They were published in 1946–1953 as ''Årstadagboken'' (The Årsta Diary). They are considered as a valuable cultural historical document of the everyday life of the people at a Swedish manor of her epoch. Biography Märta Helena Reenstierna was the daughter of lieutenant Abraham Reenstierna and Catharina Maria von Köhler. On 6 June 1775, she married Cavalry Captain Christian Henrik von Schnell (1733–1811). She had eight children between 1776 and 1787, though by the time she began her diary in 1793, only her son Hans Abraham (1780–1812) was alive to reach adulthood. She did not begun her diary until 1793, and the first eighteen years of her marriage are therefore not described. However, the spous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Norberg
Märta Norberg (19 September 1922 – 19 December 2020) was a Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. She won two bronze medals in the 3 × 5 km relay at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (1954, 1958). She was born in Örnsköldsvik, Ångermanland. Norberg finished fourth in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population .... Cross-country skiing results Olympic Games World Championships * 2 medals – (2 bronze) References External linksWorld Championship results * 1922 births 2020 deaths People from Örnsköldsvik Municipality Cross-country skiers from Västernorrland County Swedish female cross-country skiers Olympic cross-country skiers of Sweden Cross-country skiers at the 1952 Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Ljungberg
Marta Liungberg (''modern spelling:'' Märta Ljungberg) (1656–1741), was a Swedish innkeeper. She managed the important inn at Ljungby in Sunnerbo. She was also a successful farmer, who acquired many of the farms around the area of the inn. In 1828, when it was decided that a city should be founded in Sunnerbo, Ljungby (at that time only a couple of farms around the inn), was chosen to be founded upon the land donated by her in her will. Before the inn Märta Ljungberg grew up on ''Ljungby Gård'' (English: ''Ljungby Farm'') together with her parents and six siblings. She was daughter to '' frälseinspektor'' and innkeeper Lars Svensson Frimolin and his wife Margareta Larsdotter. Inn After her parents' death the ownership of inn was taken over by her brother Abraham Ljungberg (later Ljungfelt) with the everyday operation handed over to Märta herself. Instead her brother made a career as a county official ''( Swe: landskamrerare)'' for the county. During the next four years t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märtha Leth
Märtha Leth (1877–1953) was a Swedish pharmacist and the first woman in Sweden to graduate as a pharmacist, which she did from the Pharmaceutic Institute in Stockholm in 1897.Idun 29 januari 1897: Martha Leth. Sveriges första kvinnliga farmaceut', Idun, Nr. 4, 29 January 1897 Life and work Märtha Leth was born 5 November 1877 in Jämshögs parish, Blekinge, Sweden, as the daughter of the pharmacist Fredrik Leth, who was the owner of Karlshamn's pharmacy. At the age of 11, she enrolled at Lund's higher education for girls. In 1893, she began the required three-year period as a pharmacy student, first for a year and a half at the Fläkta Örn pharmacy in Malmö and then for a year and a half at her father's pharmacy in Karlshamn. After the period as a pharmacy student, she completed six months of study at the Pharmaceutical Institute in order to be able to take the pharmacy exam, which Leth did on 21 January 1897. She was the first woman to take this degree, which was the lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Leijonhufvud
Martha Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud (24 December 1520 in Ödeby Lillkyrka, Ekeberg, Närke – 15 January 1584 in Stegeholm), known as (), was a politically-active Swedish noblewoman. She was the sister of Queen Margaret Leijonhufvud and sister-in-law of King Gustav I of Sweden: she was also the maternal aunt of Queen Catherine Stenbock and the daughter-in-law of the regent Christina Gyllenstierna. In 1568, she financed the deposition of King Eric XIV of Sweden, which placed her nephew John III of Sweden on the throne. Biography Marriage Born to Erik Abrahamsson Leijonhufvud (d. 1520), a victim of the Stockholm Bloodbath, and Ebba Eriksdotter Vasa, and relative of Gustav Vasa, who became king of Sweden in 1523. Her sister Margaret was engaged to Svante Stensson Sture, the son of former regent Christina Gyllenstierna, but the engagement was broken in 1536 when king Gustav decided to marry her. Instead, Sture was married to Märta. There is a well known legend as to how this c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Johansson
Märta Ester Lovisa Johansson (later ''Engdahl'', 24 January 1907 – 6 January 1998) was a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... diver. She competed in the 3 m springboard at the 1924 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final. Her sister-in-law Signe Johansson-Engdahl was also an Olympic diver, and her elder brother Nils Johansson was an Olympic ice hockey player. References 1907 births 1998 deaths Swedish female divers Olympic divers of Sweden Divers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Stockholms KK divers Divers from Stockholm {{Sweden-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
