Anna-Ma Toll

1914-1997.

Social worker, counselor, city council director.

Anna-Ma Toll attended the Social Institute in Stockholm from 1934 to 1936 and trained at the Red Cross School of Nursing from 1936 to 1939.

Between 1941 and 1943 she worked as a curator at the pension board's health resort in Korseberga and as a hospital curator at Uppsala University Hospital, where she was hospital superintendent between 1948 and 1953.

Toll participated in rescue work in Hungary in 1956 and in Skopje in 1963 and was also for a time employed by Save the Children and was Director of SIDA from 1968 to 1980.

 

Burial site: 0108-0449B

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Lotten von Kræmer

1828-1912.

Author, philanthropist.

Lotten von Kræmer grew up in the governor's family at Uppsala Castle. There she was exposed to the glamorous social life of Uppsala Romanticism, which included people such as Malla Silfverstolpe, Atterbom and Wennerberg.

Von Kræmer herself made her debut in 1863 with the collection Dikter and also published travelogues and plays. She also became friends and got to know Thekla Knös and Ann Margret Holmgren.

Lotten von Kræmer took a radical position on women's and peace issues, participated in public debate and supported the women's movement financially. She established the first female scholarship for female students at Uppsala University.

Kræmer also showed his generosity towards Fredrika Bremerförbundet, Handarbetets vänner, Östermalms arbetsstuga för fattig barn and Föreningen för kvinnans rösträtt i Stockholm.

Kræmer moved to Östermalm in Stockholm in the 1870s and lived there until his death. The house was donated to Samfundet De Nio, which von Kræmer established by bequeathing most of his fortune to it. Samfundet De Nio, which is still in existence, is a literary academy with the task of supporting Swedish literature by awarding prizes to Swedish authors.

 

Burial site: 0152-0048

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Ebba Boström

1844-1902.

Philanthropist, founder of the Samaritan Home.

Ebba Boström was born at Östanå Castle in Roslagen. She was interested in helping the sick at an early age and devoted herself to philanthropic activities. Between 1878 and 1881, Boström spent time in England to study Christian relief work and received medical training there. In London and Manchester she was associated with the evangelical revival movement.

In 1882, she moved to Uppsala, took over the Uppsala Moral Society's rescue home for girls, purchased new premises at her own expense and expanded the business by training future employees.

Boström also built an orphanage for "defenseless" (exposed, abandoned) girls.

A new hospital at Dragarbrunnsgatan 74 was completed in 1893 and named Samariterhemmet. She began training deaconesses there, and a house was purchased as a home for the students.

In 1899 Boström handed over the entire property to the Samaritan Home Foundation.

Ebba Boström's uncle is the philosopher Christopher Jacob Boström, who is also buried in the Old Cemetery.

 

Burial site: 0126-1165

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