Fredrika Augusta "Fredrique" Paijkull (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Broström; 22 September 1836–1899) was a Swedish educator. She was a pioneer for the

folk high school Folk high schools (also ''adult education center'') are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal. They are most commonly found in Nordic countries and i ...

s in Sweden. She opened the first folk high school for women in Sweden.

Life

Paijkull was born in Stockholm to lieutenant Carl Broström and Kerstin Schenson. She was raised at the manor Farhsta, as the neighbor of Fredrika Bremer. Paijkull was educated first by private teachers and then at the

Wallinska skolan Wallinska skolan (Wallin School) or Wallinska flickskolan (Wallin Girls' School), was a girls' school in Stockholm, Sweden. Active from 1831 to 1939, it was one of the first five schools in Sweden to offer serious academic education and secondary ...

in Stockholm: from 1860 to 1862, she worked as a governess. In 1862, she married the pioneer of folk high school in Sweden, the geologist and educator Baron Wilhelm Paijkull (1836–1869). Her spouse was appointed school inspector in Samuelsberg. After a trip to Denmark, Paijkull and her husband were equally impressed by the folk high school system in Denmark, and wished to introduce it in Sweden. In 1870, she founded the first folk high school for women in Sweden in Samuelsberg in

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, which was moved to

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in 1873 and Tågaborg in 1876. She was herself the manager of the school. Fredrique Paijkull is described as intellectual and idealistic. In 1880, Paijkull was financially forced to close her school. She returned to Stockholm, where she worked as a translator.

References

Paykull, släkt, urn:sbl:8076, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av HG-m), hämtad 2014-01-17.

Idun Nr. 80, 1899

Life

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