Elisabet Anrep-Nordin

Elisabet on the cover of the Swedish magazine Hvar 8 Dag, 1909

Elisabet Anrep-Nordin (21 April 1857 - 10 August 1947), was a Swedish educator.

She was a pedagogue for the deaf, mute and blind, and the first woman in Sweden graduating as such (1877). She is regarded as a pioneer in her field and was the founder of Skolhemmet för blinda dövstumma ('School Home for the Blind Deafmute'), renamed the Drottning Sofias stiftelse ('Queen Sophia Foundation') in Skara, and its principal in 1886-1921. She belonged to the first women city Councillors when she was elected to the Vänersborg City council in the election of 1910, the first year women were eligible.

She was the daughter of the nobleman Frans Gustav Anrep and Julia Ulrica Elisabeth Mörner af Morlanda and married the deaf pedagogue Fredrik Nordin in 1879.

References

Elisabet Nordin (Anrep-) i Svenskt biografiskt lexikon

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