Elisabeth Lounasmaa (1851-1931) was a Finnish feminist. She was the head of the
Finnish Women's Association in 1884–1889.
[Finsk Kvinnoförening 1884-1909. Helsingfors: Suomen Naisyhdistys. 1909]
She was born to the clerk Karl Christian Avella and Maria Gustava Ekman. She was educated in Sweden at the school of
Cecilia Fryxell
Ulrica Cecilia Fryxell (14 August 1806 – 6 May 1883) was a Swedish educator and principal, regarded as a pioneer within the education of girls in Sweden. The girls' school in Sweden from the mid-19th century onward was influenced by her method ...
, and worked as a translator, as a transcriptor at the Finnish Senat, and as a teacher at the Swedish Girls school in Helsinki.
In 1871 she married Viktor Löfgren (from 1906 named Lounasmaa) (d. 1909), editor in chief of the newspaper
Uusi Suometar.
She was one of the founding members of the Finnish Women's Association in 1884.
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1851 births
1931 deaths
People from the Grand Duchy of Finland
Feminists from the Russian Empire
Finnish feminists
Finnish women's rights activists
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