Anna-Ma Toll

1914–1997.

Social worker, counselor, bureau director.

Anna-Ma Toll studied at the Swedish Social Institute in Stockholm from 1934 to 1936 and was educated at the Red Cross Nursing School from 1936 to 1939.

Between 1941 and 1943 she worked as a curator at the Pension Board's health board in Korseberga and as a hospital counselor at Uppsala University Hospital and was hospital curator there from 1948 to 1953.

Toll participated in the rescue effort in Hungary in 1956 and in Skopje in 1963 and was also employed for a period by Save the Children and was bureau director at SIDA from 1968 to 1980.

 

Burial site: 0108-0449B

Image description: Anna-Ma Toll, circa 1970 from the Wennergren Center in Stockholm with staff from the Population Agency department. Photo: Pelle Stackman / SIDA. [The image is cropped]
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Lotten von Kræmer

1828–1912.

Author, philanthropist.

Lotten von Kræmer grew up in the governor family at Uppsala Castle. There she took part in Uppsala's romantic movement with people such as Malla Silfverstolpe, Atterbom and Wennerberg.

Von Kræmer debuted in 1863 with the Poetry collection and also published travelogues and dramas. She also befriended and got to know Thekla Knös and Ann Margret Holmgren.

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

She was also generous to the Fredrika Bremer Association, the Friends of the hand work, Östermalms work cabin for poor children and the Association for Women's Suffrage in Stockholm.

Kræmer moved in the 1870s to Östermalm in Stockholm and lived there until her death. The house was donated to the Fellowship of the nine that von Kræmer set up by bequeathing the majority of her wealth to it. The Fellowship of the nine, which still consists, is a literary academy with the task of supporting Swedish literature through prize awards 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 early interested in helping the sick and engaged in philanthropic activities. From 1878 to 1881, Boström was staying in England to study Christian aid efforts and undertook healthcare training. In London and Manchester, she was associated with the Evangelical Revival movement.

In 1882 she moved to Uppsala, took over Uppsala Vice Commander Association's rescue Home for girls, bought at her own expense new premises and expanded the business with the training of prospective employees.

Boström also had to build an orphanage for "defenceless" (poor, extradited) girls.

A new hospital on Dragarbrunns street 74 was completed in 1893 and was named the Samaritan home. There she began the training of the deaconesses, and a house was purchased to the students home.

In 1899, Boström handed over the entire property to the foundation Samaritan home.

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

 

Burial site: 0126-1165

Image description : Ebba Boström, unknown year. Photo: Swedish Biographical dictionary / National Archives. [The image is cropped]
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