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Anna Sandström
''Anna'' Maria Carolina Sandström (3 September 1854 – 26 May 1931) was a Swedish feminist, reform pedagogue and a pioneer within the educational system of her country. She is referred to as the leading reform pedagogue within female education in Sweden in the late 19th century. Early life Anna Sandström was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to administrator Carl Eric Sandström and Anna Erica Hallström. After her father's early death, she was brought up as a foster child of Colonel Hjalmar Hagberg. Because of her foster father's profession, she followed him around the country on his military posts and was therefore often forced to interrupt her education. She was educated at the Royal Normal School for Girls ('' Statens normalskola för flickor'') and the Royal Seminary (''Högre lärarinneseminariet'') in Stockholm, where she graduated as a teacher in 1874. By the time of her graduation, females had very recently been given the right to attend university in Sweden, but she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illis Quorum
''Illis quorum'' (''Illis quorum meruere labores'') (English: "For Those Whose Labors Have Deserved It") is a gold medal awarded for outstanding contributions to Swedish culture, science or society. The award was introduced in 1784 by King Gustav III, and was first awarded in 1785. Prior to 1975, the medal was awarded by the King of Sweden. Illis quorum is now awarded by the Government of Sweden, and it is currently the highest award that can be conferred upon an individual Swedish citizen by the Government. It is awarded, on average, to seven people per year. Selected recipients * 1848 – Rafael Ginard i Sabater * 1873 – Sophia Wilkens * 1883 – Lea Ahlborn * 1890 – Karin Åhlin * 1895 – Sophie Adlersparre, Emmy Rappe * 1896 – Hilda Caselli * 1899 – Ellen Bergman * 1904 – Anna Sandström * 1907 – Gertrud Adelborg, Anna Hierta-Retzius * 1910 – Agda Montelius * 1913 – Anna Rönström * 1918 – Kerstin Hesselgren, Emilie Rathou * 1920 – Elsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1854 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the ''Samarang''. * January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is perhaps born. * January 9 – The Teutonia Männerchor in Pittsburgh is founded to promote German culture. * January 20 – The North Carolina General Assembly in the United States charters the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, to run from Goldsboro through New Bern, to the newly created seaport of Morehead City, near Beaufort. * January 21 – The iron clipper runs aground off the east coast of Ireland, on her maiden voyage out of Liverpool, bound for Australia, with the loss of at least 300 out of 650 on board. * February 11 – Major streets are lit by coal gas for the first time by the San Francisco Gas Company; 86 such lamps are turned on this evening in San Francisco, California. * February 13 – Mexican troops force William Walker and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunhild Kyle
Gunhild Kyle (28 August 1921 – 14 February 2016) was a Swedish historian.Sweden's population 1970, CD-ROM, Version 1.04, Swedish Family Research Association (2002). She was Sweden's first professor of women's history at the University of Gothenburg. Early life and education Gunhild Karlson was born on 28 August 1921 in Gothenburg, the daughter of sales manager Gunnar Karlson and his wife, Karin (Lundstedt). She completed a master's degree in Gothenburg in 1950, became a Licentiate of Philosophy in 1970, earned her Doctor of Philosophy in 1972, and became a docent#Sweden, docent in 1979. Career Kyle was an assistant professor at Vasa municipal girls' school in Gothenburg, and at a high school in Partille. She served as a senior lecturer at high school in Stenungsund before becoming, in 1984, Sweden's first professor of women's history at the University of Gothenburg, where she worked until 1987/1988, after which she became professor emerita. She is the author of ''Svenska flicksko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Ahlström
Anna Ahlström (19 July 1863 – 12 October 1943) was a Swedish teacher and principal who, in 1902, founded the New Elementary School for Girls - Ahlströmska school - in Stockholm. The school's director was her life partner. In 1903, she formed the ''Akademiskt Bildade Kvinnors Förening'' or ABKF ('Society of Women Academics') which influenced the government to address the issue of gender discrimination, which ultimately resulted in the Behörighetslagen, a law which formally declared almost all professions and positions in society open for both men and women. Biography Anna Sofia Charlotta Ahlström was born in Stockholm on 19 July 1863. She was the daughter of Jonas Ahlström. She received her high school diploma in 1885 at the Wallinska school, in Stockholm. She continued her studies in Uppsala University and graduated from the bachelor's degree in 1891 after which, she traveled in Italy and France, living in Paris. She studied modern languages in Paris, London, and Berlin. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofi Almqvist
SoFi Technologies, Inc. (abbreviated as SoFi) is an American personal finance and financial technology company. Founded in 2011 at Stanford University, it operates as a direct bank and provides its technology platform to other financial institutions. SoFi is the largest online lender in the U.S., and has 11 million customers as of 2025. In its initial years, SoFi focused on providing student loans, using data science to assess risk and offer borrowers lower interest rates. Over time, the company expanded its offerings to include mortgages, personal loans, auto loans, credit cards, stock investing, insurance, estate planning and bank accounts, ultimately obtaining a U.S. bank charter. SoFi also made acquisitions and began providing its technology platform to other financial institutions. History 2011–2013: Founding and early years SoFi, short for Social Finance, was founded at Stanford University in the Fall of 2011. The founders were Mike Cagney, Dan Macklin, James Finniga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annika Ullman
Annika is a feminine given name with multiple origins in different cultures. It is a Swedish diminutive for Anna, derived in the 15th century from Anneke, a Dutch and Northern Germanic diminutive of Anna. Swedish-born retired professional golfer Annika Sörenstam is a well-known bearer of the name. It is also a name that was in use for Black women in the mid- to late 1800s in the United States, according to census records. The name might have unknown origins in an African language, be a short form of another name such as Angelica, or be a combination of other names such as Anna and Monica. Anika is a spelling variant. It is also common in Germany, Finland and Estonia as well as in Sweden, gaining popularity after 1969 from the character of that name in the ''Pippi Longstocking'' TV series, film and book. Star Trek character Seven of Nine, whose name at birth was Annika Hansen, has also raised the profile of the name since the 1990s. Women * Annika Beck (born 1994), G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Wellander
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, Eirik, or Eiríkur is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* aina(z)'', meaning "one, alone, unique", ''as in the form'' ''Æ∆inrikr'' explicitly, but it could also be from ''* aiwa(z)'' "everlasting, eternity", as in the Gothic form ''Euric''. The second element ''- ríkr'' stems either from Proto-Germanic ''* ríks'' "king, ruler" (cf. Gothic ''reiks'') or the therefrom derived ''* ríkijaz'' "kingly, powerful, rich, prince"; from the common Proto-Indo-European root * h₃rḗǵs. The name is thus usually taken to mean "sole ruler, autocrat" or "eternal ruler, ever powerful". ''Eric'' used in the sense of a proper noun meaning "one ruler" may be the origin of ''Eriksgata'', and if so it would have meant "one ruler's journey". The tour was the medieval Swedish king's journey, when newly el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Grauers
Sven is a Scandinavian masculine first name. In Old Norse the meaning was "young man" or "servant" and the original Old Norse spelling was ''sveinn''. Variants such as '' Svend'' are found in Danish and Norwegian. Another variant, '' Svein'' is used only in the Low Countries and German-speaking countries, and is cognate with the English surname '' Swain''. In medieval Swedish, ''sven'' or ''sven av vapen'' "sven of arms", is a term for squire. The female equivalent, Svenja, though seemingly Dutch and Scandinavian, is not common anywhere outside of German-speaking countries. Sven can also be spelled with a "w" - Swen - but is pronounced as Sven. The Icelandic version is ''Sveinn'' (); the Faroese version is Sveinur (). Entertainment and music * Sven Einar Englund (1916–1999), Finnish composer * Sven Epiney (born 1972), Swiss television, radio host and editor * Sven Grünberg (born 1956), Estonian synthesizer and progressive rock composer and musician * Sven August K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Key
Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was a Swedes, Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to pedagogy, education and parenting, and was also a suffragist. She is best known for her book on education (1900), which was translated into English in 1909 as ''The Century of the Child''. Biography Early life Ellen Key was born at Sundsholm mansion in Småland, Sweden, on 11 December 1849. Her father was Emil Key, the founder of the Swedish Agrarian Party and a frequent contributor to the Swedish newspaper ''Aftonposten''. Her mother was Sophie Posse Key, who was born into an aristocratic family from the southernmost part of Skåne County. Emil bought Sundsholm at the time of his wedding; twenty years later he sold it for financial reasons. Key was mostly educated at home, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Difference Feminism
Difference feminism is a term developed during the equality-versus-difference debate in American feminism to describe the view that men and women are different, but that no value judgment can be placed upon them and both sexes have equal moral status as person A person (: people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations suc ...s. Most strains of difference feminism did not argue that there was a biological, inherent, ahistorical, or otherwise "essential" link between womanhood and traditionally feminine values, habits of mind (often called "ways of knowing"), or personality traits. These feminists simply sought to recognize that, in the present, women and men are significantly different and to explore the devalued "feminine" characteristics. This variety of difference feminism is also called gende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nya Idun
('New Idun') is a Swedish cultural association for women founded in 1885, originally as a female counterpart to ('the Idun Society'). Its aim was to "gather educated women in the Stockholm area for informal gatherings". Activity was founded on 7 February 1885 on the premises of the at Jakobsbergsgatan 11 in Stockholm. Its founders were Calla Curman, Hanna Winge, Ellen Fries, Ellen Key and Amelie Wikström. The first fifteen women elected to the association's committee were Alfhild Agrell, Lilly Engström, Selma Giöbel, Therese Gyldén, Anna Höjer, Amanda Kerfstedt, Anne Charlotte Leffler, Hulda Lundin, Agda Montelius, Anna Munthe-Norstedt, Mathilda Roos, Anna Sandström, Hilma Svedbom, Anna Whitlock, and Coraly Zethræus. The association's model was Sällskapet Idun in Stockholm, founded in 1862, which, according to its statutes, was for "men living in Stockholm who have their own activities and interests in science, literature and art in various fields". accepted only m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
