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Amy Segerstedt (12 November 1835 – 16 November 1928) was a Swedish teacher,
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teacher, and
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. She was the founder of the
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Loan Library in
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, and the (Association for Braille) in Sweden. She was particularly interested in girls' vocational training.


Biography

Amy Johanna Fredrika Segerstedt was born in
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on 12 November 1835. Her father was Fredrik Segerstedt (died 1856), a provincial doctor in Åmål. She had three sisters, Amy, Lovisa, and Wilhelmina, as well as one brother, Vitalis. The family moved to
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in 1860, where Segerstedt trained as a teacher at Klosterskolan (Thengbergska school) in 1861. She worked in 1861–1874 as a
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and in 1874–1879, as a teacher at Clara Lind's girls' school in
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. Her final year of training, 1879–1880, was at a teacher seminar at Falu folk high school seminar, where she graduated in 1880. That same year, she became director of the newly-established elementary school for girls in Åmål. After studying the "Hillic speech method" at schools for the deaf in Denmark and Norway, she became the director of
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('Silent school') in Stockholm in 1882, remaining until 1894. At a conference in 1885 in
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, she saw the private Braille library created by the nobleman,
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. In April 1892, she founded the Swedish Braille Association (), which published current literature in Braille. In December of that year, she opened a small lending library. It was housed in the Silent School in 1892–1895, then moved to the Blind Association, which in 1912 took it over and developed it into the Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille (, TPB), which is now called the
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(, MTM). MTM previously awarded the Amy Prize (now merged into the award) which was named after her. In 1901, Segerstedt and her younger sister Helmina moved to
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, and in 1912, Segerstedt moved back to Åmål to be close to her oldest sister, Louise Larsson. Segerstedt died on 16 November 1928 and is buried in her brother-in-law's (Petter Larsson) family grave at Åmål cemetery.


References


Biography

* Christensen Sköld, Beatrice (2002). ''Amy Segerstedt (1835-1928) : en livsverksbiografi''. Uppsats för magisterkurs, 9932566853; 52. Stockholm: Stockholms univ., Pedagogiska inst. Libris 8816838 *


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