Sesselja Sigmundsdottir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Icelandic pedagogue
Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1902
Place of Birth: Hafnarfjörður, Capital Region, Iceland
Date of Death: 08-Nov-1974
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Sesselja Sigmundsdottir
- Sesselja (Hreindís) Sigmundsdóttir (5 July 1902 - 8 November 1974) was a noted Icelandic pioneer in the fields of pedagogy and the care for the mentally disabled and founder of the Sólheimar community.After her training in education in Germany and Switzerland, where she was inspired by Rudolf Steiner, Sesselja returned to Iceland with the plan of establishing a self-sustaining community based on the anthroposophist philosophy.
- Here she would offer shelter and education to disabled and neglected children.
- At the age of 28, she acquire some land in a remote valley with its own hot spring and with the help of her family and friends built a farmhouse and named it Sólheimar - home of the sun.
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