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Sophie Adlersparre

1823 - 1895

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Carin Sophie Adlersparre (née Leijonhufvud; 6 July 1823 – 27 June 1895), known by her pen-name Esselde, was a Swedish feminist, writer and publisher who was one of the pioneers of the 19th-century women's rights movement in Sweden. She was the founder and editor of the first women's magazine in Scandinavia, Home Review (Tidskrift för hemmet), in 1859–1885; co-founder of Friends of Handicraft (Handarbetets vänner) in 1874–1887; founder of the Fredrika Bremer Association (Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet) in 1884; and one of the first two women to be a member of a state committee in Sweden in 1885. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sophie Adlersparre is the 267th most popular social activist (up from 348th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 444th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sophie Adlersparre ranks 267 out of 840. Before her are Nancy Wake, Vera Figner, C. Rajagopalachari, Ho Jong-suk, Jacques Vergès, and Edna Parker. After her are Camilo Torres Restrepo, Christa Schroeder, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Guillaume Cale, Unity Mitford, and Diana Budisavljević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Sophie Adlersparre ranks 33. Before her are Katsu Kaishū, Joseph Monier, Gotthold Eisenstein, Pyotr Lavrov, Konstantin Ushinsky, and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. After her are Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Enrico Betti, and Carl Wilhelm Siemens. Among people deceased in 1895, Sophie Adlersparre ranks 36. Before her are Floriano Peixoto, Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Gustav Freytag, Karl Vogt, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, and Ányos Jedlik. After her are Camilla Collett, François Certain de Canrobert, Stefan Stambolov, Ding Ruchang, Mykhailo Drahomanov, and Albert F. Mummery.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sophie Adlersparre ranks 341 out of 1,879. Before her are Alf Sjöberg (1903), Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), Sigrid of Sweden (1566), Magnus Stenbock (1664), Gustav Cassel (1866), and Jan Troell (1931). After her are Allan Edwall (1924), Amalia Lindegren (1814), Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874), Rogvolod (901), Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871), and Henrik Sjöberg (1875).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Sweden

Among social activists born in Sweden, Sophie Adlersparre ranks 5. Before her are Gustav I of Sweden (1496), Axel Munthe (1857), Joe Hill (1879), and Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390). After her are Greta Thunberg (2003), Katarina Taikon (1932), Gertrud Adelborg (1853), Ivan Betskoy (1704), and Isabelle Axelsson (2001).

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