Djursholms Samskola is the traditional name of a

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Djursholm Djursholm () is one of four suburban districts in, and the seat of Danderyd Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Djursholm is included in the multi-municipal Stockholm urban area. Djursholm is divided into a number of different areas: Djursh ...

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. The official name of the school today is '' Viktor Rydbergs Samskola''.

History

Djursholms Samskola was founded in 1891 as a private, co-educational institution, with premises in

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, in response to an expanding residential population. The writer

Viktor Rydberg Abraham Viktor Rydberg (; 18 December 182821 September 1895) was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877–1895. "Primarily a classical idealist", Viktor Rydberg has been described as "Sweden's last Romantic" and by 1859 was ...

served as its first inspector. The school roll rapidly expanded until a new building was required. Architect Georg Alfred Nilsson (1871–1949), who had previously designed both the Matteus elementary school and

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, was commissioned and designed a new building with an

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and

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. The schools early teachers included

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and

Erik Axel Karlfeldt Erik Axel Karlfeldt (20 July 1864 – 8 April 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously after he had been nominated by Nathan Söderb ...

, after whom classrooms in the present school are named. Theologian

Natanael Beskow Fredrik Natanael Beskow (9March 18658October 1953) was a Swedish theologian and school headmaster. He was also active as a preacher, writer, artist, pacifist and social activist. Beskow published a number of collections of sermons. He also made s ...

also served during the 1890s as the

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and his wife

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was a class teacher.

Modern provision

In 2004 the school was taken over by the Viktor Rydberg Foundation, which also runs three other

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, one of them adjacent to Djursholms Samskola. The Viktor Rydberg Foundation renamed the school ''Viktor Rydbergs Samskola''. Today the school accommodates 500 pupils in the 7th through 9th grades. The principal of the co-educational school is Kerstin Hallén.

References

Other sources

*Rörby, Martin and Dahlin, Ingrid: ''Georg A. Nilsson: arkitekt'', (Stockholm: 1989) * Widlund, G. Skiöld ''En bok om Danderyd'' (Danderyds kommun: 1990)

External links

Viktor Rydberg Schools Foundation
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