Maria Henschen opened a private school for girls in her father's (Lars W. Henschen) farm, which was located between Kyrkogårdsgatan, Åsgränd and Övre Slottsgatan.
She then became the first headmistress of the 'Magdeburg' (Uppsala Higher Elementary School for Women), which she also owned.
Burial site: 0101-0023
Image description: Maria Henschen, Uppsala 1877. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUBThe image is cropped]
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Ellen Hagen initiated the formation of the Uppsala Women's Suffrage Association in 1902 and was its president until 1923. Hagen was one of the foremost advocates of women's suffrage in Sweden. She was married to Robert Hagen, who was County Governor of Gävleborg County from 1918 to 1922.
She was also one of the initiators of the National Association for Women's Political Suffrage, and one of the founders of Frisinnade kvinnor 1914. Hagen was chairman of the Swedish People's Party Women's Association 1938-1946 and of the Swedish Women's Civic Association 1936-1963.
Ellen Hagen also participated in international peace and suffrage work and was a Swedish delegate at the disarmament conference in Paris in 1931.
Burial site: 0103-1967
Image description: Ellen Hagen, unknown year. Photo: Länsmuseet Gävleborg. [The image is cropped]
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Barbro Holmdahl was a teacher at Vårdhögskolan and a trained nurse at Uppsala sjuksköterskehems sjuksköterskola. In 1990, she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala University. Before that, Holmdahl had trained as a psychologist.
Her books include Boken om Henrik (1986), which describes the illness and death of her own son. Other books she has published include Tusen år i det svenska barnets historia (2000) and Sjuksköterskans historia (1994).
One of the many ways she educated her students was to take them on a tour of Uppsala and tell them about the medical institutions and poorhouses of the time. She also taught crisis management.
Burial site: 0101-0018
Image description: Barbro Holmdahl, year unknown. Photo: From private collectionThe image is cropped].
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At the age of eight, Hildur Akselsson suffered from polio and, as a wheelchair user, she managed to get a good humanities education. She had no formal teacher training but had a talent for teaching children.
At the age of 19, she started a business in her parents' home at Villavägen 3 (Villa Tomtebo) that would become known as "Aunt Hildur's School" and a well-known institution in Uppsala for 37 years.
In 1913, the family moved to the corner house at Skolgatan 33 on western Strandgatan overlooking the river and "Magdeburg". Her pupils included Dag Hammarskjöld and Gunnar Weman. About Hammarskjöld, Hildur Akselsson mentioned that he had an easy time learning.
Burial site: 0131-1351
Image description: Hildur Akselsson, Uppsala 1901. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUBThe image is cropped]
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Agnes Hamilton had a central position in Uppsala's cultural life in the mid-19th century. She was the daughter of Erik Gustaf Geijer and Anna Lisa Liljebjörn. Hamilton was also a close friend of Helena Nyblom.
Agnes Hamilton married Adolf Hamilton, who for a time was governor of Uppsala.
One of the Hamiltons' children, Anna Hamilton Geete, became a writer and wrote the memoir I solnedgången (4 volumes 1910-1914), which depicted the last decade of Erik Gustaf Geijer's life.
Burial site: 0116-0842
Image description: Agnes Hamilton b. Geijer, year unknown. Photo: From private collectionThe image is cropped].
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Ester Bobeck was known as "Uppsala's tobacco queen" and first started selling tobacco in 1908 at Östra Ågatan 27. It is noteworthy that Ester Bobeck did this at the age of 18. Bobeck married the officer Otto Bobeck in 1914.
She had a flair for business and ran the first shop alone, which became a meeting place for Uppsala students. Students came to Bobeck's shop to smoke cigars and talk.
Four years later, at Östra Ågatan 59 in "Sju helvetes gluggar", the second shop was opened and operated until 1935 when the building was demolished. The store was well located because Flustret, the Academic Hospital and the regiments at Polacksbacken were nearby. Uppsala harbor was also nearby. When the building was demolished, the tobacco shop was kept for a time in the so-called seventh window.
Ester Bobeck's (then Ericsson) first tobacco shop at Östra Ågatan 27 in Uppsala. Photo: From private collection.
"Sjunde gluggen" on Östra Ågatan 59 in Uppsala in 1936. Photo: Gunnar Sundgren / Upplandsmuseet.
In 1964, a tobacco shop was established on Fyris Square in Fenixhuset. Then Carl Perschel Barowiak's tobacco shop was taken over.
During his active years, stores were also opened at Dragarbrunnsgatan 26, Kungsängsgatan 8, Drottninggatan 8 and Skolgatan 8. Bobeck was also one of the first members of the Swedish Tobacconists' Association and was awarded the association's gold medal in 1964.
Burial site: 0102-0136
Image description: Ester Bobeck in a shop, year unknown. Photo: From private collectionThe image is cropped].
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Agnes Geijer was born in October 1898 in an academic home in Uppsala. She later became a teacher of art and textile history at the School of Home Economics from 1921 to 1927 and an assistant professor at the National History Museum and the National Museum. She was also the leading researcher of her time in Nordic textile history.
She was head of Pieta's conservation department from 1930 to 1949 and head of the Swedish National Heritage Board's textile department.
In 1938, Geijer defended his thesis on ancient textiles from the excavations at Björkö (Birka) and made a pioneering contribution to textile research. The textiles found at Birka were made of different materials and produced differently, sometimes using unknown techniques. Geijer's work with the Birka finds showed that Viking Age costumes could be reconstructed and that their origin could be determined.
Agnes Geijer published several works, such as Medeltida textilier av svensk tillverkning, Textila skatter i Uppsala domkyrka and Ur textilkonstens historia, which have been translated into English, giving her international recognition.
To strengthen Nordic textile research, she established the Agnes Geijer Foundation for Nordic Textile Research, which has been active since 1988.
Agnes Geijer on the right at a preserved Polish flag from the 17th century belonging to the Swedish National Trophy Collection. Photo: The Swedish National Trophy Collection 1959.
Agnes Geijer on the right at Pietas textile conservation. Photo: From the Swedish Journal 1942.
Burial site: 0129-2152
Image description: Agnes Geijer 1945. Photo C. Holm / RiksantikvarieämbetetThe image is cropped]
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Bernhard and his mother Amalia von Helvig belonged to the circle of Geijer, Atterbom and Malla Silfverstolpe. Amalia von Helvig originally came from Germany, settled in Sweden and became known in cultural circles.
She fell in love with Geijer, who was already engaged. Geijer had deep feelings for von Helvig but never broke off their engagement.
Bernhard von Helvig lived with his mother at Malla Silfverstolpe's in the spring of 1816, where he contracted scarlet fever and died suddenly.
His Burial site was cared for many years by Geijer and Atterbom who used to read poems at the grave.
Burial site: 0101-0009
Image description: Bernhard von Helvig's gravestone. Photo: Henrik Zetterberg. [No portrait was found when this page was made]
Eva Edling studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1900 to 1905 and also made study trips to Germany and Italy.
She was active in the association Svenska Konstnärinnor and participated in exhibitions with the association in Stockholm, Lund, Uppsala and Gothenburg.
Edling lived at Gropgränd 2, together with his mother and later alone.
Not far from Gropgränd, her brother Nils lived in the "Edlingska gården" bought by him at S:t Olofsgatan 2. A number of artists and writers have had their student residences there.
Burial site: 0121-1068
Image description: Self-portrait painted by Eva Edling in 1902. Photo: From private collectionThe image is cropped].
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Olof Eneroth is considered a pioneer in Swedish horticulture and has been called "the father of Swedish pomology".
In his horticulture, Eneroth devoted himself to the study of different apple varieties. As director of the Swedish Horticultural Society's school and its gardens between 1858-1863, he worked for the development of the art of gardening and for the introduction of gardening as a subject at folk schools, seminaries and agricultural schools.
In 1864-1866 Eneroth published Handbok i svensk pomologi.
He also advocated good public education in a general public school, and in his work Om folkskolan i Sverige (1863-1869) he developed his ideas further.
Eneroth bequeathed a substantial sum of money to Stockholm University for the establishment of a professorship in pedagogy.
Burial site: 0115-0818
Image description: Olof Eneroth, woodcut. Photo: Swedish Biographical Dictionary / National ArchivesThe image is cropped]
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