Talk:Elsa Eschelsson

A fact from Elsa Eschelsson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 June 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/June.

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Sonya Kovalevskaya[edit]

I realised after making this article that somebody may challenge the statement that she was the first woman to teach at university in Sweden by mentioning Sonya Kovalevskaya, who was professor in Stockholm from 1889. That is a valid objection, but "Stockholms högskola", as it was still known (and continued to be known for a long time) was still a small private-municipal institution which did not need to conform in every way to the same laws as the public universities in Lund and Uppsala. Spinning Jenny