Honorine Hermelin

Honorine Hermelin (19 October 1886 – 4 September 1977) was a Swedish headteacher, magazine founder and feminist.

Life Hermelin was born in Ekebyborna parish in 1886. Her mother Honorine (von Koch) died with in days. She had one sibling and she would gain seven more when her father, Joseph Hermelin, remarried.

She qualified as a teacher and taught for over ten years before coming to notice as the headteacher of the Fogelstad Group's school for women. Under her leadership Kvinnliga medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad was known as "Lilla Ulfåsa". (or 1924 ) by Kerstin Hesselgren, Honorine Hermelin, who was an educator, Ada Nilsson, Elisabeth Tamm, a political politician, and Elin Wägner, who was an author.

Private life She married for eight months. In 1947, she married Vilhelm Grønbech but he died within eight months. She had a very close relationship with Ada Nilsson such that during the last year of her life Nilsson came to stay at Fogelstad with Hermelin. Nilsson died in 1964