Ingeborg Walin

Ingeborg Walin (1868–1936), was a Swedish women's rights activist and educator in home economics. She was a pioneer in promoting home economics in the Swedish school system from the late 19th-century, and was awarded the royal medal Illis quorum in recognition of her contributions.

Life Walin was born in 1868 in Leksand, her father was a sexton and organist, and she received a good education in a comfortable home. She trained as a teacher at the Högre lärarinneseminariet, graduating in 1888. She then had further training at Stockholm College. In 1891 she embarked on a trip to Germany, Belgium and England to study the teaching of cookery in different places, accompanied by Ida Norrby. Her trip was funded by a scholarship from the Swedish state. She ran the school until 1919, when it was taken over by Ingeborg Schager. Schager and Walin worked with Gertrud Bergström, another school cookery teacher, and the three also lived together in Stockholm.