Jane Miller Thengberg
1822-1902.
Seminary teacher.
Jane Miller Thengberg was born in Greenock, Scotland, and after the death of her father, her mother moved back to Sweden with her two children.
Miller Thengberg studied education in Sweden and abroad and taught as a governess in Stockholm from 1845 to 1852. She was also a governess in Scotland for a short time.
In 1853 she moved to Uppsala, where she soon met her future husband, the librarian and teacher at the cathedral school Pehr Adrian Thengberg.
Miller Thengberg was strongly committed to the issue of girls' education. With the support of her husband Adrian Thengberg, P. D. Atterbom, Malla Silfverstolpe and Gunnar Wennerberg, she founded a girls' school in 1855 called Klosterskolan.
Teaching took place in the building on what is now Klostergatan. The school quickly gained a reputation as the best girls' school in the country. The building has its roots in the medieval settlement and is located in the block north of the old monastery area.
When Miller Thengberg was recruited eight years later as director of the Higher Teacher Training College, with a training school in Stockholm, 130 girls had been educated in the building.
She was also one of the initiators of the School of Home Economics in Uppsala.
Jane Miller Thengberg is buried at the Västgöta nations Burial site , which was donated by her husband Adrian Thengberg (died 1859) and Jane Miller Thengberg. She paid for both the long iron fence and the casting of the sculpted lion by sculptor W. Hoffman.
Burial site: 0119-1013
Image description: Jane Miller Thengberg, Stockholm 1870. Photo: W. A. Eurenius & P. L. Quist / UUB.The image is cropped]
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