Lovisa Christina Charlotta "Lotten" Edholm or af Edholm, née ''von Heijne'' (18 April 1839 - 12 July 1930) was a Swedish composer and a pioneer within the
Swedish Red Cross
The Swedish Red Cross ( Swedish: ''Svenska Röda Korset'') is a Swedish humanitarian organisation and a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Founded in 1865, its purpose is to prevent and alleviate human suffering wher ...
.
She was born to the nobleman Georg Fredrik von Heijne-Lillienberg and Juliana Charlotta Silfverstolpe, and married
Edvard Edholm (1831-1913), physician to the king, in 1867. She served as ''hovfröken'' (
maid of honour
A maid of honour is a junior attendant of a queen in royal households. The position was and is junior to the lady-in-waiting. The equivalent title and office has historically been used in most European royal courts.
Tudors and Stuarts
Traditi ...
) to the
queen dowager Josephine in 1865–67.
Lotten Edholm initiated the participation of women in Sweden in the Swedish Red Cross
and served as chair of the women's section of the Swedish Red Cross in 1865–1906. She also started a cooking school in Stockholm. Lotten Edholm was also active as a composer and composed piano music for private use in high society life.
In 1919, she published her memoirs, ''Från barndom till ålderdom'' (From Childhood to Old Age).
Notes
References
* Svensk uppslagsbok. Malmö 1937.
* Lotten af Edholm på Levande Musikarv
Further reading
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1839 births
1930 deaths
19th-century Swedish composers
Swedish women memoirists
Swedish ladies-in-waiting
19th-century Swedish classical composers
Swedish women classical composers
Swedish Romantic composers
20th-century Swedish women composers
19th-century Swedish women composers
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