Preceded by Hjalmar Hammarskjold Succeeded by Allan Cederborg Parents Anders Berg Succeeded by Hugo Hammarskjold Name Fridtjuv Berg Party Liberals | Preceded by Elof Lindstrom Role Author Children Yngve Berg, Tor Berg Died February 29, 1916 | |
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Full Name Johan Fridtjuv Berg Born 20 March 1851 ( 1851-03-20 ) Resting place Norra Begravningsplatsen59°21′22″N 18°01′14″E / 59.3562°N 18.0205°E / 59.3562; 18.0205 Similar People Prince Carl - Duke of Vaster, Alva Myrdal, Ernst Linder, Gosta Ekman | ||
Johan Fridtjuv Berg (20 March 1851 - 29 February 1916) was a Swedish libertarian, school teacher and book author.
Biography
The father had been a principal at a school in Finspång from 1851. Fridtjuv succeeded him 1878 and kept the service until 1881. 1883 Fridtjuv wrote the book "Folksolan såsom bottenskolan" where he advocated a school system where there was only one type of school for all different classes in society. Fridtjuv sat as a riksdagsman (member of parliament) in the second chamber for Stockholm's city council from 1891 to 1911 and for Stockholm's constituency 1912-1916. In the forming of the Folkpartiet, which year 1900 went into the Liberal coalition party, he started 1905 to be active in a portion of other political questions other than just education questions. After the union dissolution between Sweden and Norway Fridtjuv spoke out against all violent conflicts between the two countries. This resulted in that he at the election year 1905 got less support from the right and the right-liberal voters.
When Karl Staaff formed a government November the 7th 1905, with a majority vote system in mind, Fridtjuv became the minister of education. As a minister he successfully created a more equal school system. He was also responsible for a spelling reform year 1906, which removed all spelling with "fv","hv" and "dt" in the Swedish language.
After a proposal of proportional based elections got voted for in the riksdag, Fridtjuv decided that the political war between proportional based and majority based elections needed to rest. About parlamentarism, the nations defense and sobriety questions Fridtjuv joined Staaff.
The work Fridtjuv had made as the minister of education had a great support. He was one of the leading politicians revolving liberal education views and Swedish school politics. With the support of the manly teachers he proposed that the salary should be dictated by sex for the public servant school teachers.
"Male teachers and female teachers may work as hard - and the work may be of the same value, but they do not perform the same kind of work."
The proposal went through year 1906.