Jenny Rossander
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Jenny Rossander (1837-1887) was a Swedish educator, mathematician, women's rights activist and journalist.[1]
She and her sister Alida Rossander were students of the pioneering Lärokurs för fruntimmer in 1859, were among the first teachers employed when it was transformed to the Högre lärarinneseminariet in 1861, and were fired by Jane Miller Thengberg when the school was given an orgnazied structure in 1864, and in 1865 they became the founders and managers of the Rossander Course. From 1864 she was a journalist of the Home Review.
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- ^ Johanna Sofia (Jenny) Rossander, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/JennyRossander, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (artikel av Kerstin Rydbeck), hämtad 2021-03-07.
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- 1837 births
- 1887 deaths
- 19th-century Swedish educators
- 19th-century Swedish women
- 19th-century Swedish journalists
- Swedish mathematicians
- Swedish women mathematicians
- Mathematics educators
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