Alma Söderhjelm
Alma Söderhjelm (10 May 1870 – 16 March 1949) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish historian and the first female professor in Finland.
Academic Career
Söderhjelm had a docentship from 1906 to 1926. In 1927 she became chair of General History at Åbo Akademi University, and thus the first female professor in Finland.[1]
She was noted for her studies of the French Revolution, in particular her doctoral dissertation on journalism[2] during the Revolution and as editor of the correspondence of the French Queen Marie Antoinette with the Swedish nobleman von Fersen and with some French revolutionaries.[3]
Political Activities
Söderhjelm was politically active. She smuggled journals into Finland from Sweden, and helped military volunteers to move from Sweden into Germany [4]
She was an occasional contributor to feature films, including co-scenarist for The Blizzard (1923), directed by Mauritz Stiller.