Fredrika Limnell
Fredrika Limnell Svendbom (born July 14, 1816 in Härnösand , † September 12, 1892 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish philanthropist and suffragette .
Life
Fredrika Limnell was the daughter of the university professor Olof Fredrik Forssberg and Catharina Margareta Svedbom. Her first marriage was to her cousin, Per Erik Svedbom, principal at a primary school in Stockholm and, in the last year of her life, editor at Aftonbladet . They had two sons, Vilhelm Svedbom and Erik, who suffered from a functional impairment. After her first husband died of cholera in 1857, she married the head of the Swedish Railways, Carl Abraham Limnell, in 1860 .
Philanthropist
Fredrika Limnell was a philanthropist and made her home available for community service. Also participated Fredrika Bremer and Princess Eugenie their work on social issues. Fredrika Limnell was a member of several associations that dealt with the improvement of the living conditions of women and became one of the central pesons in a network of women and men who campaigned for women's rights. Her best friends included Sophie Adlersparre ( Esselde ), Anna Hierta-Retzius , Ebba Lind von Hageby , Rosalie Olivecrona , Eva Fryxell , Pontus Wikner and Erik Gustaf Geijer's daughter Agnes Hamilton . Limnell was a founding member of the Fredrika Bremer Association, where she co-authored and signed the founding invitation together with Sophie Adlersparre, Ellen Anckarsvärd, Ellen Fries, Hans Hildebrand and Gustaf Sjöberg in autumn 1884. She was also a member of the provisional women's committee for the establishment of the Swedish Red Cross 1864-1865.
Wifstavarfs AB, Svedbom-Hellzéns family business, made considerable profits, which allowed Fredrika Limnell to generously support the women's movement. She never held a public position, but supported their work financially, culturally and socially. She made a large part of Fredrika Bremer's journey from Italy to Palestine. In Sophie Adlersparre's house , she heard the first chapters of the Gösta Berling saga and, with financial support, helped Selma Lagerlöf to complete the work.
Villa Lyran
With her second husband Carl Limnell , Fredrika Limnell built an exclusive summer villa in the Swiss style with a view over the Mälaren in 1867 . The house is located at what was then known as the Leopold Lyra in what is now Stockholm 's Bredäng district. There, in the undeveloped seclusion, the luxury of the time was mixed with sometimes unusual constructions, such as the tower roof, which could be raised and lowered. In a forest clearing, like a theater decoration, stood a huge, gilded lyre made of carved wood. The lyra was rebuilt in the same place in 1941. In the summer months, the Limnell couple invited celebrities from literature, music and the visual arts to their festivals in honor of the lyre ( Kolfej på lyra ) on their property. Jenny Lind , Gunnar Wennerberg , Victoria Benedictsson , the poet Carl Snoilsky , Carl David af Wirsén , the composer Emil Sjögren , the singer Kristina Nilsson de Casa Miranda , Selma Lagerlöf , Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Henrik Ibsen were just some of those who attended Lyra. The Nobel Prize winner Henrik Ibsen even wrote a stanza about the house in the poem ”Ballonbrev til en svensk dame”.
On these occasions Frederika Limnell is said to have read from the as yet unpublished work Vallfart och vandringsår by the then unknown Verner von Heidenstam . Lyran became so famous that Oscar II even made a visit. The writer Lotten Dahlgren was a frequent guest at Lyran and wrote the book Lyran in 1912 about life in the villa. In autumn and winter the Limnells made their salon in the “Gustaf Horns palats”, a residential building at Fredsgatan 2 in Stockholm, available for their literary and musical gatherings. Today there is a pastry shop with a restaurant in the building.
further activities
Fredrika Limnell was deputy chairwoman of the Eugeniahemet charitable nursing home from 1874 to 1892 . She was involved in the Föreningen för gift kvinnas äganderätt , an association that campaigned for the rights of married women, and in the Föreningen för sinnesslöa barns vård , an association for the care of children with mental or physical disabilities.
Through her commitment to women's rights, Fredrika Limnell supported the following activities in an active or financial way:
- The women's magazine Tidskrift för Hemmet , 1859 Sophie Adlersparre
- The training course for women Lärokurs for fruntimmer
- Söndags- och aftonskolor för flickor 1863 Sophie Adlersparre
- The writing office Renskrivningsbyrån , 1864 Sofie Adlersparre
- The training course for women Jenny Rossander's Lärokurs för fruntimmer , 1865
- Stockholms läsesalong 1867. Sophie Adlersparre
- Fredrika-Bremer-Vereinigung Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet from 1884
Individual evidence
- ↑ sok.riksarkivet.se
- ↑ Fredrika Limnell . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 570 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- ↑ ibsen.uio.no
- ↑ skeptron.uu.se
- ^ Fredrika Bremer Vereinigung, annual report 1893 . (PDF) p. 14
- ^ C Fredrika Limnell . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (Sven Erik Täckmark)
- ↑ sfbaytimes.com
- ↑ dagen.se
- ↑ Selma Lagerlof: The Selma Lagerlof Megapack: 31 Classic Novels and Stories . Wildside Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4344-4344-1 , pp. 20 (1584 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ ibsen.net
- ↑ skeptron.uu.se
- ^ From: Ellen Key, En europeisk intellektuell
- ↑ Upp systrar, väpnen er !: Kön och politik i svensk 1800-talsfeminism, p. 85, Atlas Akademi, ISBN 978-91-7389-148-6
- ↑ Kvinnor och kvinnohistoria i Sverige: förteckning över bibliografier, p. 80, Rosa Malmström, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, 1981, ISBN 91-85206-22-9
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Limnell, Fredrika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish philanthropist and women's rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harnösand |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1892 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |