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Tidevarvet
''Tidevarvet'' (Swedish: ''The Epoch'') was a weekly political and feminist magazine existed between November 1923 and December 1936 in Stockholm, Sweden. History and profile ''Tidevarvet'' was established in 1923. The first issue appeared on 24 November 1923. The founders were five women, who were called the Fogelstad group: Kerstin Hesselgren, Honorine Hermelin, who was an educator, Ada Nilsson, who was a medical doctor, Elisabeth Tamm, a politician, and Elin Wägner, who was an author. The founders had a liberal political stance. It was started on the initiatives of the Liberal Women's National Association, which was also established by the group. ''Tidevarvet'' stated its mission in the first issue as follows: the magazine would be a “forum, an arena in which men and women can work side by side to forge a broad-minded vision and find ways of implementing it in legislation and community life.” The magazine was published on a weekly basis. It adopted a radical politica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Nilsson
Ada Konstantia Nilsson (September 21, 1872 – May 23, 1964) was an early Swedish woman medical doctor. She was one of the founders of the campaigning magazine ''Tidevarvet'' in 1923. Biography Nilsson was born in Södra Säms in 1872. She was brought up in a farmhouse. Her father who helped to run the cottage textile workers died when she was thirteen and she went to live in Stockholm. In 1891 she was one of the first women to take medical training, initially in Uppsala and mainly in Stockholm. She met Lydia Wahlström and Alma Sundquist who were pioneers, too. She was a member of the Liberal Women's National Association. The magazine ''Tidevarvet'' was founded in 1923 by Kerstin Hesselgren, Honorine Hermelin, who was an educator, Ada Nilsson, Elisabeth Tamm, a liberal politician, and Elin Wägner, who was an author. The founders who had a liberal political stance were known as the Fogelstad group. Nilsson was one of the principal funders of the project and became editor-in-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honorine Hermelin
Honorine Hermelin (19 October 1886 – 4 September 1977) was a Swedish headteacher, magazine founder and feminist. Life Hermelin was born in Ekebyborna parish in 1886. Her mother Honorine (von Koch) died with in days. She had one sibling and she would gain seven more when her father, Joseph Hermelin, remarried. She qualified as a teacher and taught for over ten years before coming to notice as the headteacher of the Fogelstad Group's school for women. Under her leadership Kvinnliga medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad was known as "Lilla Ulfåsa". It was founded in 1925 and it continued under her leadership until 1954. This led to her coming the first woman to chair a school board in 1932. The magazine ''Tidevarvet'' was founded in 1923 (or 1924) by Kerstin Hesselgren, Honorine Hermelin, who was an educator, Ada Nilsson, Elisabeth Tamm, a political politician, and Elin Wägner, who was an author. Private life She married for eight months. In 1947, she married Vilhelm Grønbech but h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Hagen
Ellen Helga Louise Hagen (''née'' Wadström; 1873–1967) was a Swedish suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. She was a member of the National Association for Women's Suffrage, the chairperson of Liberala kvinnor (Liberal Women) in 1938–1946 and Svenska Kvinnors Medborgarförbund (Swedish Women's Citizen Society) in 1936–1963. During the 1920s and 1930s, she was internationally active within peace work and the Swedish delegate in the international peace conference in Paris in 1931. Life Hagen was born on 15 September 1873 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was the daughter of the priest and writer Bernhard Wadström and Helga Westdahl (1838–1879), and the sister of the writer Frida Stéenhoff. In 1896 she married Roger Hagen, governor of Gävleborg country. She was the mother of ambassador Tord Hagen. She was active as a speaker for Country Association for Women's Suffrage. She is described as a skillful speaker, and her contribution was appreciated: by her conne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Andén
Eva Johanna Andén (23 April 1886 – 26 March 1970) was a Swedish lawyer. She became the first woman member of the Swedish Bar Association on 14 March 1918. Life Eva Andén was born to the merchant Heribert Andén and Elin Forssman. In 1907, she became a law student at the University of Uppsala, where she was the only female member of her class, and graduated in 1912. In 1912–1913, she toured Sweden and gave legal lectures on behalf of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden); in 1913–1914 she was employed as a notary at the legal court of Falun, and in 1914–1915, she practiced law in the firm of Johan Tjerneld, secretary of the Swedish Bar Association. In 1915, she took over the law firm of Anna Pettersson in Stockholm. The second woman lawyer in Sweden, Mathilda Staël von Holstein, practiced in her firm in 1919–1923. Eva Andén had a successful career until her death, and was particularly engaged in cases of divorce, allowance and other cases involvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Tamm
Elisabeth Tamm (30 June 1880, at the manor Fogelstad in Julita, Södermanlands län – 23 September 1958) was a Swedish liberal politician and women's rights activist. She was known in the parliament as ''Tamm i Fogelstad'' ("Tamm of Fogelstad"). Life She was the eldest daughter and heiress of the Parliamentarian and landowner August Tamm and Baroness Emma Åkerhielm af Margrethelund. She and her sister Märta were schooled at home by a governess, and were also instructed by their father in managing an estate. Elisabeth attended lectures at Uppsala University; however, in 1905 she inherited Fogelstad Manor from her father, and abandoned her plans to study in order to attend to her estate. She never married. Her father being a politician, Tamm showed an early interest in politics and the growing women's movement. Political career Being an unmarried woman of legal majority as well as a wealthy property owner, she fulfilled the criteria which made her qualified to vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moa Martinson
Moa Martinson, born Helga Maria Swarts sometimes spelt Swartz, (2November 18905August 1964) was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. Her ambition was to change society with her authorship and to portray the conditions of the working class, and also the personal development of women. Her works were about motherhood, love, poverty, politics, religion, urbanization and the hard living conditions of the working-class woman. Early life Martinson was born on 2November 1890 in Vårdnäs, Linköping Municipality. Her mother was Kristina Swartz (sometimes spelt Christina Schwartz) who served as a maid wherever jobs were available. There are no legal records stating who her father was, but according to researchers Annika Johansson and Bonnie Festin, he was probably Anders Teodor Andersson, a farmhand who served at the Kärr farm in Motala at the same time as Swartz. Since she carried, what in those days was referred to as an illegitimate child, she had to go to he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilia Fogelklou
Emilia Maria Fogelklou-Norlind (20 July 1878 in Simrishamn - 26 September 1972 in Uppsala, Sweden) was a Swedish pacifist, theologian, feminist, author and lecturer. She was the first woman in Sweden to receive a bachelor’s degree in theology, and her written work spans 28 published books. Biography The daughter of a district registrar, Emilia Fogelklou excelled as a student. After attending Kungliga Högre Lärarinneseminariet, she became a teacher in Gothenburg and began to write, initially about religious education. She was involved in the workers education movement and wrote for progressive education reform. In 1909, she became the first woman in Sweden to receive a degree in theology. In 1915, Fogelklou attended the women’s peace conference at the Hague. She became an early member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and went on to contribute to the liberal feminist magazine Tidvarvet. Her commitment to international peace would later see her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerstin Hesselgren
Kerstin Hesselgren (14 January 1872 – 19 August 1962) was a Swedish politician. Hesselgren became the first woman to be elected into the Upper House of the Swedish Parliament after female suffrage was introduced in 1921. She was elected by suggestion of the Liberals with support from the Social democrats. Biography Hesselgren was born at Torsåker, Gästrikland. She was the daughter of medical doctor Gustaf Alfred Hesselgren and Maria Margareta Wærn. She was the eldest of six children. She never married. She was educated by a governess at home and then at a girl school in Switzerland. In 1895, she graduated as a feldsher in Uppsala; in 1896. The following year she led the School of Domestic Science in Stockholm. Whilst on leave she qualified as a Sanitary Inspector from Bedford college in 1905 and left the college and her job in 1906. Early career Kerstin Hesselgren worked as a sanitary-inspector in Stockholm from 1912 to 1934 and school kitchen inspector from 1909 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elin Wägner
Elin Matilda Elisabet Wägner (16 May 1882 – 7 January 1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, feminist, teacher, ecologist and pacifist. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1944. Biography Elin Wägner was born in Lund, Sweden as the daughter of a school principal, Wägner was only three years old when her mother died. Wägner's books and articles focus on the subjects of women's emancipation, civil rights, votes for women, the peace movement, welfare, and environmental pollution. She is best known for her commitment to the women's suffrage movement in Sweden, National Association for Women's Suffrage, for founding the Swedish organization Rädda Barnen (the Swedish chapter of the ''International Save the Children Alliance'') and for developing the women's citizen school at Fogelstad (where she was also a teacher on civil rights). Alongside Fredrika Bremer, Wägner is often seen as the most important and influential feminist pioneer in Sweden. Wägner was the laun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Andreen
Ellenor Andrea Andreen (1888–1972) was a Swedish physician, pacifist and feminist. As a physician, she specialized in the treatment of diabetes, combining dietary restrictions with insulin. A prominent figure in the Swedish women's movement, she became a council member of the Women's International Democratic Federation in 1945, later becoming a vice-president. She chaired the ''Svenska Kvinnors Vänsterförbund'' (Swedish Women's Left-wing Association) from 1946 to 1964. A strong proponent of nuclear disarmament, in 1953 she was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize. Early life, family and education Born on 11 July 1888 in Örby, Västra Götaland County, Andrea Andreen was the daughter of the textile factory director Johan Walfrid Andreen and Eleonore Andreen. She attended Göteborg's girls gymnasium, matriculating from Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet in 1905. In 1909, she married the chemist and Nobel laureate The Svedberg with whom she had two children, among them Hillevi Svedberg, before t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
1923 Establishments In Sweden
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