Asta Ödman was born in Gothenburg and was a sculptor and artist.
Ödman studied under Sten Teodorsson and during her studies she became friends with Inger Manne, with whom she painted for many years.
In the early 1960s, Ödman studied under Fritz Gahn and was a member of a group of artists who sculpted, drew and painted.
Ödman had a number of exhibitions of her own. She was also posthumously represented with several works in Norrköping Art Museum's collection exhibition "Women Artists" from 2013.
In Norrköping, there are also public works created by Asta Ödman, for example in the town hall and the De Geerhallen concert hall.
Image description: Asta Ödman with sculptures. Photo: Mikael Strand. The photo was first published in Norrköpings TidningarThe image is cropped]. Click here for an uncropped image
Louise Stiernstedt was born in Uppsala and was a cartoonist and graphic artist.
After studying at the Technical School in 1895-1896 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1897-1893, Stiernstedt continued his education at various schools in Italy and Munich.
Stiernstedt was a skilled woodcut and linocut artist and her art consists of portraits, landscapes and still lifes. She is represented at the National Museum.
Image description: Louise Stiernstedt, Landscape School at the Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, 1898. Back row: Helene Herslow, Astrid Kjellberg, Esther Salmson, Louise Stiernstedt, Mathilde Wigert, John Österlund, Manne Hallengren, Seth Nilsson. Front row: Herman Österlund, Professor Per Daniel Holm, Hildur Hult Photo: Unknown photographer / UUBThe image is cropped]. Click here for an uncropped image
Ragni Kjellberg was the director of "Magdeburg" (Elementary School for Girls) and its principal from 1942 to 1969. She was also chairman of Fyrisgården and the Professional Women's Association.
In Kjellberg's memory, a memorial fund was established in her name for students with artistic talent.
Image description: Ragni Kjellberg, third from left, Uppsala 1934 at the 17th general girls' school meeting in Uppsala. Published in Upsala Nya Tidning. From left: headmaster Josef Lundén, Miss Karin Winroth and Mrs. Ragni Kjellberg, headmaster Sven Graners, headmaster Karin Akselsson, headmasters Martha Grönvall and Thyra Kullgren, and education councilors Nils Hänninger and August Johansson. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
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.
Image description: Anna-Ma Toll, ca 1970 from the Wennergren Center in Stockholm with staff from the Population Office. Photo: Pelle Stackman / SIDAThe image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Ebba Ruzsica Sörbom was born Ruzsica Schreiber to a Jewish family in Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia. As a child she spoke German, Hungarian and Serbian.
In 1944, Sörbom was taken to a concentration camp where his mother and younger brother were gassed. Despite everything, Sörbom survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and came to Sweden in 1945.
She studied drama at Uppsala University, worked with drama therapy at Ulleråker Hospital and provided information about the Holocaust in schools.
In 1994, Sörbom received a cultural scholarship from Uppsala Municipality and in 1997 a scholarship from the Swedish Writers' Fund to study at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Vienna.
Her debut book Bortom minnet, bortomglömskan was published in 1988. Through her poetry, Ebba Sörbom has reflected personal memories of the concentration camps and given voice to the survivors.
Johanne Grieg Cederblad was born in Bergen, Norway.
In 1933, she settled in Uppsala and was very involved in public education. She also worked with the elderly and patients in psychiatric hospitals. Grieg Cederblad was also a children's author and lecturer.
Grieg Cederblad was also a translator of Swedish fiction into Norwegian from the time she arrived in Sweden until the late 1940s. The job was given to her by her brother Harald (founder, major owner and CEO of Gyldendal Norsk Forlag). She also wrote articles for Alle Kvinners Blad.
Johanne Grieg Cederblad and Bothild Fredriksson examine clothes collected by the Swedish Norwegian Aid. The picture is published in UNT 1940. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet.
A memorial party for Nordahl Grieg in Stockholm in 1944. Pictured, from left: Carl Cederblad, Uppsala, Mrs. Johanne Grieg Cederblad, Minister Bull, Sigurd Hoel and theatre manager Hans Jacob Nielsen. Photo: National Archives Norway.
During the war years and the German occupation of Norway, Grieg Cederblad was very active in the Norway relief effort. In 1946, she was awarded the Haakon VII Cross of Freedom for her work.
Margit Sahlin was one of Sweden's first three female priests and was ordained in 1960 after the Church of Sweden opened its doors to female priests by a decision of the Church Council and a new law was passed in 1958 and came into force in 1959.
Before that, she had acquired a broad academic background and defended her doctoral thesis in Romance languages on the ecclesiastical dance and the folk dance song, La Carole médiévale et ses rapports avec l´église (The Medieval Dance and its Relations with the Church ). As early as 1940, her thesis was interdisciplinary.
Sahlin initiated the creation of the Catherine Foundation and was its director for a total of 34 years. The Foundation is described as a meeting place for dialogue between church and society.
Sahlin was secretary of the Central Council of the Church of Sweden from 1945 to 1970 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology in Uppsala in 1978.
In the 1970s, she was also vicar of the Engelbrekt parish in Stockholm. She pioneered the formation of diocesan women's councils around the country and their umbrella organization, the Church Women's Council (now Women in the Church of Sweden).
Among the many books Margit Sahlin has written are Evangelization (1947), Man and Woman in Christ's Church (1950), The Ministry of the Word in a Changing World (1959), Time for a Rethink (1980), With Peter (1982), What God is Like (1985), The Secret Book. Reading the Bible Today (1994) and Jesus. The Secret of God (1999).
The Margit Sahlin Academy was established in 2015 and is a platform for the exchange of views between research, society, culture and the church in the spirit of Margit Sahlin.
Image description: Margit Sahlin at her summer house in Dalarna, unknown year. Photo: Ulf Palm. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
In 1956, Sonja Lyttkens became the second woman in Sweden to receive a doctorate in mathematics for a thesis on harmonic analysis.
In 1963, she became the country's first university lecturer in mathematics, a position she held until 1984. Lyttkens was also committed to improving the conditions for women in academia.
In addition to her work, Lyttkens devoted herself to watercolor painting and had already had several exhibitions before her retirement. Her watercolors are represented at the National Arts Council.
As late as 1986, Lyttkens published a work: General Tauberian Theorems Connected with a Theorem of Korenblum. After retirement, Lyttkens devoted himself entirely to his watercolor painting.
Rosalie Olivecrona was one of the pioneers of the Swedish women's movement. She made significant contributions as a social commentator and women's rights campaigner.
In 1857, Olivecrona published a number of articles in Aftonbladet under the heading 'En ropandes röst i öknen'. The articles defended Fredrika Bremer's novel Hertha, which was a contribution to the debate on the authority of unmarried women.
Together with Sophie Adlersparre, she founded the Tidskrift för hemmet (Journal for the Home ) in 1859, where she published a number of texts. Internationally, she held several positions in the growing female public sphere.
Olivecrona had the main responsibility for the exhibition on women's handicrafts at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 and had similar assignments in Philadelphia, Paris and Chicago.
Rosalie Olivecrona's literary career began in the 1840s with poems and short stories in Göteborgs Handels- och sjöfartstidning under the pseudonym La Straniera. Her poetry collection Skogsblommor was published in 1855, and later in life she published the study Mary Carpenteroch hennes verksamhet (1887) and Spridda blad (1889).
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.
Image description: Jane Miller Thengberg, Stockholm 1870. Photo: W. A. Eurenius & P. L. Quist / UUB.The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
