Elisabet Anrep-Nordin (21 April 1857 – 10 August 1947), was a Swedish educator and principal of a school for blind and deaf students from 1886 to 1921. She was also elected to the city council of
Vänersborg in 1910.
Early life
Elisabet Anrep was born in 1857 in
Skultuna
Skultuna () is a locality situated in Västerås Municipality, Västmanland County, Sweden with 3,133 inhabitants in 2010.
Skultuna has some of Sweden's oldest industrial sites (including an early 17th-century brassworks, Skultuna Messingsbruk) ...
, the oldest daughter of the eight children of nobleman Frans Gustav Anrep and Julia Ulrika Elisabet Mörner af
Morlanda
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The municipality includes Sweden's third largest island O ...
. Her uncle was genealogist
Johan Gabriel Anrep. She was the first woman in Sweden trained as a pedagogue for deaf students, graduating in 1877.
Career
Anrep-Nordin initially worked as a swim teacher at
Manillaskolan
('Manilla School'), before 1879 ('Public Institute for the Deaf and Blind at Manila'), is a Swedish state school for blind, deaf and hard of hearing children, founded by Pär Aron Borg in 1809. Until the autumn term 2013, the school was loca ...
, a school for the deaf, which led to her interest in becoming an educator for the blind and deaf. She is regarded as a pioneer in her field and was the founder of ('School Home for the Blind Deafmute'), renamed the ('Queen Sophia Foundation') in
Skara, and its principal in from 1886 1921. She visited
Perkins School for the Blind in Boston in 1886, to study the methods used to educate
Laura Bridgman
Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, twenty years before the more famous Helen Keller; Laura's friend Anne Sullivan becam ...
and other
deafblind students there. She attended and spoke at an international conference on
deaf education at the 1904
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an World's fair, international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds tota ...
in
St. Louis, and met with
Helen Keller and First Lady
Edith Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Roosevelt (née Carow; August 6, 1861 – September 30, 1948) was the second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt and the First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909. She also was the Second Lady of the United States in 1901. ...
. She lectured on her work, and helped to found the Association for the Care of Adult Blind People in Sweden.
Anrep-Nordin belonged to the first cohort of women city councillors. She was elected to the Vänersborg City Council in the election of 1910, the first year women were eligible.
Personal life
Elisabet Anrep married the deaf educator in 1879, in Stockholm. He died in 1920. They had four children, including her eldest son, Gösta, who was a medical student when he died in New York in 1904, and (1888–1946), a musician and composer.
Anrep-Nordin died in 1947, aged 90 years, in Västergötland.
References
Further reading
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External links
A photograph of Elisabet Anrep-Nordin by Ragnar Eiserman, in the
Vänersborg Museum.
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People from Västmanland
1857 births
1947 deaths
19th-century Swedish educators
20th-century Swedish educators
20th-century Swedish women politicians
20th-century Swedish politicians
Educators of the deaf
Educators of the blind