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Illis Quorum
''Illis quorum'' (''Illis quorum meruere labores'') (English: "For Those Whose Labors Have Deserved It") is a gold medal awarded for outstanding contributions to Swedish culture, science or society. The award was introduced in 1784 by King Gustav III, and was first awarded in 1785. Prior to 1975, the medal was awarded by the King of Sweden. Illis quorum is now awarded by the Government of Sweden, and it is currently the highest award that can be conferred upon an individual Swedish citizen by the Government. It is awarded, on average, to seven people per year. Selected recipients * 1848 – Rafael Ginard i Sabater * 1873 – Sophia Wilkens * 1883 – Lea Ahlborn * 1890 – Karin Åhlin * 1895 – Sophie Adlersparre, Emmy Rappe * 1896 – Hilda Caselli * 1899 – Ellen Bergman * 1904 – Anna Sandström * 1907 – Gertrud Adelborg, Anna Hierta-Retzius * 1910 – Agda Montelius * 1913 – Anna Rönström * 1918 – Kerstin Hesselgren, Emilie Rathou * 1920 – Elsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Zealous And Devoted Service Of The Realm Ribbon
For or FOR may refer to: English language *For, a preposition *For, a complementizer *For, a grammatical conjunction Science and technology * Fornax, a constellation * for loop, a programming language statement * Frame of reference, in physics * Field of regard, in optoelectronics * Forced outage rate, in reliability engineering Other uses * Fellowship of Reconciliation, a number of religious nonviolent organizations * Fortaleza Airport (IATA airport code), an airport in Brazil * Revolutionary Workers Ferment (''Fomento Obrero Revolucionario''), a small left communist international * Fast oil recovery, systems to remove an oil spill from a wrecked ship * Field of Research, a component of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification * FOR, free on rail, a historic form of international commercial term or Incoterm The Incoterms or International Commercial Terms are a series of pre-defined commercial terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce (IC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerstin Hesselgren
Kerstin Hesselgren (14 January 1872 – 19 August 1962) was a Swedish politician. Hesselgren became the first woman to be elected into the Upper House of the Swedish Parliament after female suffrage was introduced in 1921. She was elected by suggestion of the Liberals with support from the Social democrats. Biography Hesselgren was born at Torsåker, Hofors, Gästrikland. She was the eldest daughter of a provincial medical doctor Gustaf Alfred Hesselgren and Maria Margareta Wærn. She was the eldest of six children. She never married. She was educated by a governess at home and then at a girl school in Switzerland. In 1895, she graduated as a feldsher in Uppsala; in 1896. The following year she led the School of Domestic Science in Stockholm. Whilst on leave she qualified as a Sanitary Inspector from Bedford college in 1905 and left the college and her job in 1906. Early career Kerstin Hesselgren worked as a sanitary-inspector in Stockholm from 1912 to 1934 and school k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herta Svensson
Herta Elisabet Svensson (1886–1981) was a Swedish educator, social worker, and personnel consultant. She was an important figure in the history of social work and settlement movement in Sweden, and was part of the initiative that established the country's first settlement house in 1912. In 1921, she became the first person in Sweden to hold the title "personnel consultant". While working for the , she actively volunteered to uplift the living conditions of workers and established a convalescent home in Värmland. Life Herta Svensson was born on 21 April 1886 in Simrishamn, Sweden. She was the only child of Gustaf Svensson, a business, and his wife Amanda Elisabeth Olsson. Her father left their family home when she was young, and she was brought up by her mother. She attended the school in Stockholm, and in 1908, became a governess to Natanael and Elsa Beskow in Djursholm. She subsequently became a teacher at the middle school Djursholms samskola, where Natanael Beskow wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Rydh
Hanna Albertina Rydh (12 February 1891 – 29 June 1964) was a Swedish archaeologist and politician for the Liberal People's Party. She served as a Member of Parliament in the Riksdag from 1943 to 1944 and was the 3rd President of the International Alliance of Women from 1946 to 1952. Biography Hanna Rydh was born in Stockholm to director Johan Albert Rydh and his wife Matilda Josefina Westlund. In 1919, she was married to fellow archaeologist Bror Schnittger (1882-1924). After his death, she was married in 1929 to Mortimer Munck af Rosenschöld (1887-1942) who served as Governor of Jämtland-Härjedalen (1931-1938). Scientist Rydh was a pupil at the Wallinska skolan in Stockholm and proceeded studying archaeology at Stockholm University. She graduated in literature history, archaeology and art history in 1915. She submitted her doctoral dissertation at Uppsala University in May 1919. Between 1916 and 1930, she and her husband conducted archaeological excavations at Adels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivi Sylwan
Vivi Sylwan (4 September 1870 - 5 October 1961) was a Swedish textile historian and textile curator at the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg. Early life and education Anna Sofia Vivi Sylwan was born on 4 September 1870 in Kristianstad, to Ida Carolina (née Wendel) and Lieutenant Colonel Otto Sylwan. She was one of eight children. Her half-brother Otto Sylwan became a professor of aesthetics, literature, and history of art at Gothenburg College and was Principal of the college from 1914 to 1931. The two siblings lived together until his death in 1954. Sylwan studied in the Department of Higher Art Industry at the Technical University of Stockholm, now Konstfack. She qualified as a drawing instructor in Stockholm in 1894. Career Sylwan lived in Berlin between 1895 and 1896 where she worked in an embroidery firm, before returning to Sweden to run a traditional handicrafts shop in Malm. She also taught drawing. She began working at the Röhsska Museum in 1912 as a typist, before th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valfrid Palmgren
Alfhild ''Valfrid'' Matilda Palmgren, as married Palmgren Munch-Petersen (3 June 1877 – 6 December 1967), was a Swedish educator, linguist, and politician. She reformed Swedish library policy and introduced the public library system in Sweden and Denmark. Biography Upbringing and education Valfrid Palmgren was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 3 June 1877, the second daughter of Karl Edvard A. H. Palmgren (1840–1910) and Ida Teresia Pohl (1853–1937), and was known as "Vava" at home. Her siblings were elder sister Signe Maria Elisabet (born 1875), Sigrid Hildegun Anna (1882–1883) and Gustaf (born 1884). She would have had another brother, but he had died by the time of her birth in 1886. Growing up, Valfrid and her sister Signe were treated as equal to all other children – regardless of gender – in accordance with their parents' educational ideas. In 1882, Valfrid and Signe were enrolled in their father's school, Palmgrenska samskolan, which was the first school in Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Hägg
Jacob Hägg (22 July 1839 – 15 April 1931) was a Swedish naval officer and marine art, marine artist. He entered the Royal Swedish Naval Academy, Naval Academy in 1858, and was commissioned as an officer in 1863. He sailed on several long journeys, including one Vanadis expedition, circumnavigation of Earth. He entered the Fleet Staff in 1888, was appointed head of the Naval Academy in 1895 and promoted to Rear admiral (Sweden), rear admiral in 1899. In parallel to his military career, Hägg was also active as an artist. He made drawings and other graphic works, watercolours and oil paintings almost exclusively on marine subjects. He was also an active promoter of marine history and lobbied for the establishment of the Maritime Museum (Stockholm), Maritime Museum in Stockholm. His brother was the architect and artist Axel Haig. Background, childhood and family life Jacob Hägg was born at Katthamra, a small manor house in Östergarn on the Swedish island Gotland. His father an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurore Grandien
Anna "Aurore" Leonida Grandien (4 October 1857 – 2 February 1940) was a Swedish educator, journalist, newspaper editor, and publisher. She served as the chief editor and publisher of the newspaper '. In 1927, she was awarded the Swedish royal medal Illis quorum in recognition of her career as an editor and publisher. Life Aurore Grandien was born on 4 October 1857 in Gävle, Sweden. She was the oldest child of Anna Margareta Norbohm (née Holmgren) and Martin Leonard Norbohm, a weaver at the cotton mill. As a child, Grandien had the responsibility of taking care of two younger siblings: Karl and Bertha. From 1877 to 1878, she attended the primary school teacher training college in Bollnäs. Between 1878 and 1884, she worked as a teacher in Österfärnebo and in Gävle. At a school meeting, she met who was a teacher at the Söderhamn grammar school, as well as the editor of the newspaper '. They married in 1885, and Aurore was appointed the editor. ''Söderhamns Tidning' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1909. In 1914, she was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy. Life Early years Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was born on 20 November 1858 at Mårbacka, Värmland, Union between Sweden and Norway, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Lagerlöf was the daughter of Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf, a lieutenant in the Royal Värmland Regiment, and Louise Lagerlöf (''née'' Wallroth), whose father was a well-to-do merchant and a foundry owner (). Lagerlöf was the couple's fifth child out of six. She was born with a Hip dysplasia (human), hip injury, which was caused by detachment in the hip joint. At the age of three and a half, a sickness left her lame in both legs, although s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann-Margret Holmgren
Anna Margareta "Ann-Margret" Holmgren (; 17February 185012October 1940) was a Swedish author, feminist, suffragist, and pacifist. Life Anna Margareta Holmgren was born at Hässle Manor in Uppland, Sweden. She was the daughter of Baroness Augusta Jacquette Cederström (1818–1860) and the conservative politician and courtier, nobleman Jacob Nils Tersmeden (1795–1867), thus great-granddaughter of Jacob Tersmeden and Lona Lisa Söderhielm. In 1869, she married Frithiof Holmgren (1831–1897), medical doctor and professor at Uppsala University. Their residence, Villa Åsen in the district of Kåbo in Uppsala, was the site of discussion forums for intellectual students and a centre for radical and modern ideas. Among the modern ideas in these radical circles were the introduction of a republic, democracy, suffrage, workers' rights, contraception and atheism. This is thought to have given Holmgren radical sympathies, and she participated in the radical paper ''Verdandi'' from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magna Sunnerdahl
Magna Charlotta Katarina Sunnerdahl (1863–1935) was a Swedish philanthropist. On inheriting a huge fortune when her father died in 1908, she founded a number of boarding schools for needy children known as ''Sunnerdahls Hemskolor''. From 1914, she made a series of donations to the Stockholm Municipality, city of Stockholm for the construction of low-rental apartments to house working-class families with several children. Biography Born on 26 May 1863 in Stockholm, Magna Charlotta Katarina Sunnerdahl was the daughter of the wholesale merchant Anders Petter Emil Sunnerdahl (1826–1908) and Hedda Ulrike née Francke (1836–1865). She lost her mother when she was only two in connection with the birth of her brother who died when he was 18. She lived with her father for the rest of his life in their home in Stockholm's Drottninggatan or their summer residence in Bromma. When her father died in August 1908, he had not made a will. As a result, she inherited his fortune of SEK 9 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilda Widegren
Maria Matilda Aurora Widegren (1863–1938) was a Swedish educator and peace activist. A delegate for Sweden at the 1915 International Congress of Women held in The Hague, she helped establish the Swedish branch of the International League for Peace and Freedom, serving as president from 1919 to 1934. She was active in other peace organizations, becoming a board member of the Nordic Teachers Peace Association, chair of Swedish School Peace Union (Svenska skolornas fredsförbund) and a council member of the Nordic Association for International Cooperation on Peace (Nordiska föreningen mellanfolkligt samarbete för fred). Early life and education Born in Söderköping on 7 August 1863, Maria Matilda Aurora Widegren was the daughter of the school principal Per Mauritz August Widegren (1815–1899) and his wife Aurora Fredrika née Steinnordh (1828–1879). In 1879, after her mother's death, she moved with her father to Stockholm where she attended the normal school for girls. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
