Elfriede Amanda Lender (19 May 1882

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

– 10 April 1974

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

) was an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n teacher and pedagogue. Lender was the founder of the first Estonian-language girls' school in the Estonia. Since 1901 she worked as a teacher in Tallinn. In 1907 she established Elfriede Lender Private Gymnasium ( :et), where Estonian girls may study. From 1920 until 1927, she studied at the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

. In 1937 she established a seminary for pre-school educators (). In 1944 she fled to Sweden. From 1945 until 1962, she worked in

. Her spouse was an engineer

Voldemar Lender Voldemar Lender ( in Tallinn, Estonia – 30 September 1939 in Tallinn) was an Estonian engineer who was the mayor of Tallinn (or Reval at that time) from 1906 to 1913, notably being the first ethnic Estonian to become the mayor of Tallinn. Biog ...

Works

* Minu lastele (Stockholm, 1967, Tallinn, 2000, 2010)

References

1882 births 1974 deaths Estonian schoolteachers University of Tartu alumni Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to Sweden {{Estonia-bio-stub