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Anna Maria Elvia (20 February 1713 - 8 May 1784), was a Swedish feminist writer.
Anna Maria Elvia (20 February 1713 - 8 May 1784), was a Swedish feminist writer.
Biography
She was the daughter of a professor, Petrus Elvius, the sister of the mathematician Per Elvius the Younger and married professorMårten Strömer
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in 1757, all active in the Uppsala University
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. She belonged to the academical world in Uppsala and was given an unusually high education for a contemporary female, such as mathematics, astronomy and several languages including Latin.
She was renowned and respected for her academic abilities. Jonas Lindeblad said of her in 1770, that she was known for her intellectual resources, despite her effort to remain discreet, simply because they could not be hidden.
Elvia regarded intellectual development as not only a right but a duty for a female. This was a controversial idea of her time and she was alongside Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht
Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht ( Stockholm, Sweden, 28 November 1718 – Stockholm, Sweden, 29 June 1763) was a Swedish poet, feminist and salon hostess.
Biography
She was the youngest of five children of the wealthy official Anders Ander ...
one of few female contemporary writers to express it. She is quoted: "Our sex should make a habit of thus: to learn and to think."
(1750).Ann Öhrberg (2001). Vittra fruntimmer. Författarroll och retorik hos frihetstidens kvinnliga författare. page 243
Works
# ''Fägnerim, Då Herr Prosten Kolmodin sin Bibliska Qwino-Spegels Andra Del af Trycket utgaf'', iOlof Kolmodin
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* Per-Olov Ahrén (1926–2004), Swedish clergyman, bishop of Lund from 1980 to 1992
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, ''Biblisk Qwinno-Spegel'', 2, Stockholm, 1750
# ''Eva Maria Anckarcrona, g. Ferber'', begravningsdikt, 4:o, 1760.
References