Sofia Elisabeth Hagman (17 September 1842 – 26 January 1900) was a Finnish educator. She was a pioneer within the development of the

Folk high school Folk high schools (also ''adult education center'') are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal. They are most commonly found in Nordic countries and i ...

in Finland.kansallisbiografia Suomen kansallisbiografia (National Biography of Finland) Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Johan Erik Hagman and Margareta Sofia Nordman. She was the sister of the women's rights activist

Lucina Hagman Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853, Kälviä – 6 September 1946, Helsinki) 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 mas ...

and writer Tycho Hagman. She graduated as an educated in

Jyväskylä Jyväskylä () is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Central Finland. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Jyväskylä is approximately , while the Jyväskylä sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately ...

in 1871 and worked as such and then as the manager of a girls school in S:T Michel in 1879-1887. In 1889, she started the first folk high school in Finland in

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, and was its manager in 1889-1900. Her folk high school focused on the education of women to handicrafts professions, and it did not survive her death long.

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1842 births 1900 deaths 19th-century Finnish educators Educators from the Grand Duchy of Finland Finnish women educators Swedish-speaking Finns 19th-century women educators {{edu-bio-stub

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