Sofia Hagman
Sofia Elisabeth Hagman (17 September 1842 – 26 January 1900) was a Finnish educator. She was a pioneer within the development of the Folk high school in Finland.[1]
Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Johan Erik Hagman and Margareta Sofia Nordman. She was the sister of the women's rights activist Lucina Hagman and writer . She graduated as an educated in Jyväskylä in 1871 and worked as such and then as the manager of a girls school in S:T Michel in 1879-1887. In 1889, she started the first folk high school in Finland in Kangasala, and was its manager in 1889-1900. Her folk high school focused on the education of women to handicrafts professions, and it did not survive her death long.
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