Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853,
Kälviä
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– 6 September 1946,
Helsinki
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) was an early Finnish feminist and among the first female MPs in the world due to the
1907 Finnish parliamentary election.
Life and career
Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Johan Erik Hagman and Margareta Sofia Nordman, a police chief in rural
Kälviä
Kälviä () is a former municipality of Finland. Kälviä was consolidated with the city of Kokkola on 1 January 2009.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Ostrobothnia region. The former municipality ...
. She was the sister of the educator
Sofia Hagman and writer
Tycho Hagman. She became a teacher, and
Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius (; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic music, Romantic and 20th-century classical music, early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his countr ...
might be the most famous individual to study at her school.
She became active in women's causes, serving in Parliament from 1907 to 1917. Of the 200 MPs elected in 1907, just 19 were women. The successful women included Hagman,
Miina Sillanpää,
Anni Huotari,
Hilja Pärssinen,
Hedvig Gebhard,
Ida Aalle,
Mimmi Kanervo,
Eveliina Ala-Kulju,
Hilda Käkikoski,
Liisi Kivioja,
Sandra Lehtinen,
Dagmar Neovius,
Maria Raunio,
Alexandra Gripenberg,
Iida Vemmelpuu,
Maria Laine,
Jenny Nuotio, and
Hilma Räsänen.
Lucina Hagman also founded the
Martha organisation, the
Suomalainen naisliitto, served as the first chair of
Unioni, The League of Finnish Feminists, and was active in the
peace movement
A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation. They are often linked to the goal of achieving world pe ...
.
She also wrote a biography of
Fredrika Bremer.
Publications
* Ensimmäinen koulu (1882)
* Fredrika Bremer. Kuvaus vuosisatamme alkupuolelta (1886)
* Naisten kasvatuksesta(1888)
* Om qvinnouppfostran (1888)
* Naisten äänestysoikeudesta (1889)
* Kokemukseni yhteiskasvatuksesta (1897)
* Kasvatus rakkauteen (1900)
* Uppfostran till kärlek (1901)
* Minna Canthin elämäkerta. 1 (1906)
* Naisten ohjelma lähestyviä vaaleja varten (1906)
* Kvinnornas program vid de stundande valen (1906)
* Minna Canthin elämäkerta. 2 (1911)
* Lucina Hagman kertoo lapsuudestaan Kälviältä 1853-1865 (1936)
* Suomalainen yhteiskoulu Helsingissä (1897)
* Koulun lukukirja (1891)
See also
*
List of peace activists
This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated Diplomacy, diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usua ...
References
1853 births
1946 deaths
People from Kokkola
People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Young Finnish Party politicians
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1907–1908)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1916–1917)
Finnish feminists
Finnish suffragists
20th-century Finnish women writers
Finnish women's rights activists
Finnish pacifists
Pacifist feminists
Suffragists from the Russian Empire
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