Hilda Elfving
Hilda Vilhelmina Elfving (8 September 1827 – 8 January 1906) was a Swedish educator.[1]
Elfving was born and died in Stockholm. She was the daughter of Johan Isak Elfving, lector at . She was the royal governess of Princess Louise of Sweden in 1857–1860.[2]
Her father participated in the Course of Education for Women (Swedish: Lärokursen för fruntimmer), which was held in Stockholm in 1859–1861 and replaced with the Högre lärarinneseminariet, where she became the first principal in 1861–1863.[2] As principal, she made a trip to study the educational methods in Germany, Switzerland and France on governmental funds in 1862.[1]
During her period as principal, the school was described as still having the informal atmosphere common in girls' school, and her student Lilly Engström was later to describe her:
- "She attended our lessons with her sewing basket, and was always surrounded with an atmosphere of still joy and harmony.".[3]
She was succeeded as principal by Jane Miller Thengberg in 1863. She married the merchant Pontus Ferdinand Kobb and moved to Gothenburg in the same year.
References[]
- ^ a b Stålberg, Wilhelmina (1864). "Elfving, Hilda". Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (in Swedish). p. 129. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ a b Elfving, släkter, urn:sbl:15977, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, Retrieved 30 April 2014
- ^ Heckscher, Ebba, Några drag ur den svenska flickskolans historia: under fleres medverkan samlade, Norstedt & söner, Stockholm, 1914
- 1827 births
- 1906 deaths
- 19th-century Swedish educators
- Swedish governesses
- Governesses to the Swedish monarchy
- 19th-century women educators