''Emilie'' Sofia Bergbom (1834−1905) was a Finnish theater director. She was a supporter of the

Fennoman movement The Fennoman movement or Fennomania was a Finnish nationalist movement in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland, built on the work of the ''fennophile'' interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries. History After the Crimean War, Fennoman ...

. She was joint director of the

Finnish National Theatre The Finnish National Theatre ( fi, Suomen Kansallisteatteri), established in 1872, is a theatre located in central Helsinki on the northern side of the Helsinki Central Railway Station Square. The Finnish National Theatre is the oldest Finnish ...

with her brother

Kaarlo Bergbom Kaarlo Bergbom (2 October 1843, Vyborg, Viipuri – 17 January 1906) was a Finland, Finnish theatre director. He was the founder of the Finnish National Theatre, the first Finnish language theatre company. Though he wrote very little as a play ...

from its foundation in 1872 until her death in 1905. Bergbom was also director of a credit bank, making her the first of her sex in Finland to have an official position.

Sources

* Helmi Krohn: Emilie Bergbom – elämä ja työ. (K. F. Puromiehen kirjapaino O.-Y., 272 s.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 1917. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bergbom, Emilie 1834 births 1905 deaths 19th-century Finnish businesswomen 19th-century Finnish businesspeople Finnish theatre directors Finnish women theatre directors Finnish theatre managers and producers Women theatre managers and producers 19th-century theatre managers