Maria Jonae Palmgren (1630,

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- before 28 May 1708) was a Swedish female scholar. In 1645, she was accepted as a student at the

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college of Count Brahe. Alongside her fellow student, the German Ursula Agricola from

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, who was accepted one year prior (1644), she is likely to have been the first female student in Sweden: the next student of her sex was at the same school was

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in 1780. After her studies, Palmgren married her fellow student, the official of count Brahe, Peter Wickenberg.

References

* Maria Jonae Palmgren i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor * https://web.archive.org/web/20090720075150/http://bossebus.eu/Html/000/0035/928.htm * Tage Grennfelt: Gränna- Visingö historia (1980) *http://subbe.se/anor/ant_an/p74382519.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231115/http://hem.fyristorg.com/ingegard-lennart/anoringk/sida0/h_____c3.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Palmgren, Maria Jonae 1630 births 1708 deaths 17th-century Swedish women People of the Swedish Empire 17th-century Swedish writers