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Name
  
Emilia Fogelklou

Role
  
Author

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Books
  
Reality and Radiance: Selected Autobiographical Works of Emilia Fogelklou, Arnold, The Atonement of George Fox

Awards
  
Samfundet De Nios stora pris

Emilia Maria Fogelklou-Norlind (20 July 1878 in Simrishamn - 26 September 1972 in Uppsala, Sweden) was a Swedish theologian and author.

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She studied in Uppsala (B.Sc. 1906) and then was a candidate in theology (the first female in Sweden, 1909) and an honorary doctor of divinity (also the first female, Uppsala 1941).

She had various teaching positions including as a lecturer at the teachers' college in Kalmar. After 1923 she took leave from lecturing to devote herself entirely to writing and lecturing. Later she lectured at the National Institute Hogre lararinneseminariet and at the University of Stockholm. She was a peace activist and attended the Women's Peace Congress (1915), also called the Hague Congress in 1915 and after the Second World War founded the Swedish Per Sundberg IAL. She collaborated with Nathanael Beskow in Birkagarden. In 1932 she joined the Society of Friends. She wrote many important religious writings. From 1922 to 1929 she was married to the geographer Arnold Norlind. Her book about him (Arnold 1944) are at the top of her authorship. Her letters are also interesting, such as correspondence with Elin Wagner, Dear Ili, dearest Elin (ed. Gunnel Vallquist, 1989).

In her final years she lived in Uppsala.

Prizes won

  • De Nios stora pris 1932
  • Emilia Fogelklousallskapet
  • "When Life was most Radiant"
  • Andrews, M. B. (2004) Whirlwind of life: the story of Emilia Fogelklou. London: Quaker Books. (ISBN 0-85245-354-X)
  • References

    Emilia Fogelklou Wikipedia