Hilda Elfving
Swedish educator
About Hilda Elfving
Lived 1827 – 1906 (aged 78). Hilda Elfving was a Swedish.
Hilda Vilhelmina Elfving (8 September 1827 – 8 January 1906) was a Swedish educator.
Elfving was born and died in Stockholm. She was the daughter of Johan Isak Elfving, lector at Stockholms gymnasium. She was the royal governess of Princess Louise of Sweden in 1857–1860.
Her father participated in the Course of Education for Women , which was held in Stockholm in 1859–1861 and replaced with the Högre lärarinneseminariet, where she became the first principal in 1861–1863.
She was succeeded as principal by Jane Miller Thengberg in 1863. She married the merchant Pontus Ferdinand Kobb and moved to Gothenburg in the same year.
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Who was Hilda Elfving?
Swedish educator (1827-1906)
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Hilda Elfving was born on 8 September 1827 in Stockholm.
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Hilda Elfving died on 8 January 1906 in Hedvig Eleonora parish.
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Hilda Elfving was Swedish.
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