Elisabet Anrep-Nordin, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Elisabet Anrep-Nordin

Swedish special education teacher

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1857

Date of Death: 10-Aug-1947

Profession: teacher, special education teacher, telegraphist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Elisabet Anrep-Nordin (21 April 1857 - 10 August 1947), was a Swedish educator.
She was a pedagogue for the deaf, mute and blind, and the first woman in Sweden graduating as such (1877).
She is regarded as a pioneer in her field and was the founder of Skolhemmet för blinda dövstumma ('School Home for the Blind Deafmute'), renamed the Drottning Sofias stiftelse ('Queen Sophia Foundation') in Skara, and its principal in 1886-1921.
She belonged to the first women city Councillors when she was elected to the Vänersborg City council in the election of 1910, the first year women were eligible.
She was the daughter of the nobleman Frans Gustav Anrep and Julia Ulrica Elisabeth Mörner af Morlanda and married the deaf pedagogue Fredrik Nordin in 1879.