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Alma Söderhjelm

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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.

References

  1. ^ "Söderhjelm, Alma (1870 - 1949)". Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  2. ^ Le Régime de la presse pendant la Révolution française (1901)
  3. ^ Women of Learning
  4. ^ Söderhjelm, Alma (1870 - 1949)

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