Elin Kallio

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Elin Kallio

Elin Kallio (born April 23, 1859 as Elin Oihonna Waenerberg in Helsinki , died December 25, 1927 there ) was a well-known Finnish gymnastics teacher and founder of the Finnish women's gymnastics movement.

Elin Kallio grew up as the daughter of the Finnish pastor and university professor Gabriel Mauritz Waenerberg and his wife Agatha Sophia Aschan. Her brother was Thorsten Waenerberg .

After graduating from high school in 1876, she founded the first Finnish women's association in Helsinki. In 1876 she completed training as a gymnastics teacher at the Royal Gymnastics Institute in Stockholm , Sweden . When she returned to Finland, she taught gymnastics at Finnish girls' schools for over 40 years and represented the new subject at Helsinki University . In 1896 she founded the first Finnish society for women's gymnastics, which she headed until 1917 and which still exists today under the name Finnish Women Gymnasts .

In 1886 she married the Finnish linguist Aukusti Herman Kallio (1858-1896).

Honors

Elin-Kallio-1959

The Finnish Post dedicated a stamp to her on her hundredth birthday . For their importance in the history it has been as one of 999 women an inscription on the tiles of the Heritage Floor in the art installation The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago dedicated. She is assigned to the group around the doctor Elizabeth Blackwell , who belongs to the 3rd time wing from the American Revolution to the women's movement .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elin Kallio at the Sports Museum Finland 2016 (Finnish). Retrieved May 3, 2018
  2. ^ Karen Christensen, Allen Guttmann, Gertrud Pfister: International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports: H.-R. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001, p. 617f online excerpt from google books .
  3. ↑ Brooklyn Museum : Elin Kallio . Retrieved May 2, 2018
  4. ^ History of the Finnish Gymnastics Federation. (Finnish). Retrieved May 2, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Kallio, Elin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waenerberg, Elin Oihonna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish gymnastics teacher and founder of the Finnish women's gymnastics movement
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1927
Place of death Helsinki