Elín Briem, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Elín Briem

Icelandic teacher and cookbook writer

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1856

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1937

Profession: writer, teacher, head teacher

Nationality: Iceland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Elín Rannveig Briem née Eiriksdóttir (1856–1937) was an Icelandic teacher and writer who in 1889 published one of Iceland's most popular books, Kvennafræðarinn (The Women's Instructor).
Principally a cookbook, it also provided advice to housewives on health, hygiene and economics.
The work was based on the classes she gave to her students while headmistress of the girls college at Ytri-Ey near Skagaströnd in the north of Iceland.