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20-716: The school is known under many different names. Because it was initially intended to serve the children of the Moravian congregation, it was called Brödraförsamlingens flickskola i Göteborg ('Girls' School of the Unity of the Brethren in Gothenburg') or Evangeliska Brödraförsamlingens flickskola i Göteborg ('Girls' School of the Unity of the Evangelical Brethren in Gothenburg'), but also, commonly, as Salsskolan ('Hall School'), because it

40-602: A teacher at the Societetsskolan in Gothenburg, before being given the position as principal of the Kjellbergska flickskolan in 1835. The school was founded that same year by a charity board and financed by a will, and she was employed by the board. Essentially, she was given salary and school material from the board, but otherwise entrusted with the foundation and organisation of a pioneer secondary school for girls age 15–16. Helena Eldrup had no formal education, but this

60-501: A temporary experiment in 1884-86), it also offered teachers training courses to adult women. The graduates of these courses were, from 1910 onward, counted as equal to those from the Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm. The subjects were religion, French, German, English, Swedish, history, geography, writing, mathematics, music, drawing and handicrafts. The number of students counted 15 in

80-500: The Swedish language, which was an innovation in Sweden. While they were not given the education in scientific subjects given to the boys, no other school in Sweden at the time offered a structured secondary education in these subjects to girls. Amongst its staff were the educator Helena Eldrup (up to 1835) and the reforming educator Cecilia Fryxell (in 1846–1847), and among its students were

100-707: The ages of 91-5 in 1835; 24 in 1842 and 92 in 1875. The school was managed by a female principal supervised by a board. It moved from one address to another until it was finally provided with a permanent home in 1870. At the time of the introduction of compulsory elementary schools in Sweden in 1842, it was one of five schools in Sweden to provide academic secondary education to females: the others being Societetsskolan (1786) and Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola (1815) in Gothenburg, Askersunds flickskola (1812) in Askersund and Wallinska skolan (1831) in Stockholm . In 1943,

120-560: The kind of student which answered to the description of a female who would be likely to need to support herself, normally from the middle classes. In this, the school followed the example of the Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola from 1815. The most common occupation socially acceptable for a professional middle class woman in the 19th-century was that of a teacher or governess, and the school also functioned as an educational institution for female teachers. Between 1908 and 1932 (after

140-629: The others being Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola (1815) and Kjellbergska flickskolan (1833) in Gothenburg, Askersunds flickskola (1812) in Askersund and Wallinska skolan (1831) in Stockholm . Helena Eldrup Helena Eldrup (1800 in Karlshamn – 1872 in Gothenburg ), was a Swedish educator. She was the first principal of the Kjellbergska flickskolan in Gothenburg from its foundation in 1835 until her death in 1872. Helena Eldrup

160-403: The professional title of "Aunt". From 1814, the school also offered sleeping accommodation for students not residing in Gothenburg, and was from this point also part boarding school. The school had four classes in 1814, and six classes in 1836. The official purpose of the school was to "bring the children to Jesus" by having them renounce worldly pleasures: the official main subject of the school

180-419: The school board. Initially, the school was a small one with a moderate number of students, and moved between various addresses until it was finally given a permanent school building in 1870. Helena Eldrup was the only full time teacher for the first seven years, until educated (male) teachers were employed. Eldrup herself remained as English language teacher, speaking the language perfectly. She died in 1872 and

200-440: The school from most other contemporary girls' schools, which had the purpose to educate their students as ideal wives and mothers, and it was thereby a part of the wave of a new type of girls' schools, which was established in Sweden in the mid 19th-century in response to a contemporary Swedish debate about women's education. Further more, Kjellbergska flickskolan accepted students free of charge, which made it possible to accept just

220-414: The school. The school had a very good reputation and high popularity from the start, and it soon became common for the wealthy merchant families of Gothenburg to have their daughters schooled there. The school was not free, but the parents had to pay a fee, and approve of the school principles when they enrolled their children. The school employed both male and female teachers, and the female teachers had

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240-432: The title is given because it was the first girls' school in Sweden to provide serious secondary education to girls in a manner more equal to that given to boys than in the other girls' schools in Sweden, which were essentially finishing schools . At the time of the introduction of compulsory elementary school in Sweden in 1842, it was one of five schools in Sweden to provide academic secondary education to female students;

260-432: The writer Emily Nonnen , and the reforming pedagogue Mathilda Hall , who in 1857 founded the successor school to Societetsskolan: Mathilda Halls skola ('Mathilda Hall's School'). The school has been referred to as the first girls' school in Sweden. Technically, this is not correct, as the first girls' school was Rudbeckii flickskola in 1632, and there were numerous schools for girls in 18th-century Sweden. However,

280-521: Was Christian Ethics, and the discipline was strict. However, in accordance with the beliefs of the Moravian Church, the religious tuition was emotional rather than harsh or strict. The girls were given the tuition in household tasks commonly given in girls' schools, but they were also given a structured education in German, French, English, Geography, History, Mathematics, Drawing and Handicrafts, as well as

300-486: Was active between 1835 and 1967. The school was founded by a fund granted in the will of the wealthy merchant Jonas Kjellberg (1752–1832). Jonas Kjellberg was a merchant and trader who in 1808, formed an import and shipping company under the name Jonas Kjellberg & Co. Kjellberg died in 1832, and the school was inaugurated in 1835. The stated purpose of the school was to provide education to make it possible for females to support themselves professionally. This separated

320-619: Was born to the sea captain Gabriel Mollén (d. 1802) and Anna Katarina Remner (d. 1834) and married in Gothenburg in 1821 to sea captain Niels Eldrup (d. 1837), with whom she had a daughter and a son. She lived with her husband in Chile in 1822–27, but separated from him in 1828, lived with her brother John in Great Britain in 1828–29, and returned to Sweden in 1829. She was for a time employed as

340-408: Was initially held in the prayer hall of the Moravian congregation. The school was inaugurated on 1 November 1787. It was intended to introduce in Sweden the ideal of equal education for males and females, which was an ideal of the Moravian Church and common among the schools of the congregation in other nations. Until 1817, the school used the prayer hall of the Moravian congregation, and to go there

360-413: Was not an obstacle, as there was almost no formal education to be had for a woman at that time. She was estimated by the board to have sufficient informal education for the task, in addition to being an intelligent, religious but compassionate woman as a person. She succeeded with the task given her by the board, and the first examination for her students was hosted in 1836, upon which she was praised by

380-400: Was succeeded by Therese Kamph , who expanded and developed the school considerably. In 1911, 113 former students collected money to commission a portrait of the de facto school founder, Helena Eldrup, made by one of her students, Jenny Nyström . Kjellbergska flickskolan Kjellbergska flickskolan ('Kjellberg Girls' School') was a Girls' School in Gothenburg , Sweden. It

400-435: Was therefore commonly referred to as going to the hall, hence the common name Hall School. It was given its own building in 1817. Initially, the school was intended to serve the children of the Moravian Church, but it was open to non-members of the Moravian church as well, and already shortly after its foundation, the school became popular among non-Moravians. Between 1799 and 1814, there were also separate classes for boys at

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