Ellen Sandelin

Ellen Beata Elisabeth Sandelin
Sandelin relief, c. 1907
Born19 July 1862 (1862-07-19)
Karlskoga parish, Sweden-Norway
Died7 August 1907 (1907-08-08) (aged 45)
Stockholm, Sweden
Burial placeNorthern Cemetery, Stockholm
NationalitySwedish
OccupationPhysician
Parents
  • Carl Henrik Sandelin (1824–1871) (father)
  • Beda Collett (mother)

Ellen Beata Elisabeth Sandelin (19 July 1862 – 7 August 1907) was a Swedish physician who practiced in Stockholm, and was also a teacher in physiology and health education. She received her medical license in 1897.

Biography

She was the daughter of physician Carl Henrik Sandelin (1824–1871) and Beda Collett.[1]

Sandelin graduated from the Wallinska girls school in Stockholm in 1881.[2] (Wallinska was one of the first five schools in Sweden where girls could get a formal academic education, and it was the first allowed to offer girls the entrance exam (called Studentexamen) for university admission.[3]) Sandelin went on to teach at a girls' school in Karlstad, Sweden, and[2] then attended the University of Kristiania, later renamed University of Oslo, Norway.

Sandelin came of age just as the study of medicine was being made available to Swedish women.[4] As she wrote in 1899,

"... a Royal Ordinance was issued, in 1870, by which women obtained a right to matriculate to pursue medical studies, graduate in medical degrees at the universities, and practise as physicians.... In 1873 Upsala University admitted its first female student of medicine..."[4]

In 1885, Sandelin began her medical studies in Uppsala, Sweden.[1] There, she earned a bachelor's degree in medicine in 1891 and in 1897 received her medical license at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.[2]

In that same year, Sandelin became a practicing physician in Stockholm and was also a teacher in physiology and health education in several educational institutes for women as well as doctors at city schools.[2] To disseminate knowledge in physiology and hygiene in wide circles, she held public lectures that proved popular.[2] According to Levin, "Ellen Sandelin called for teaching that taught the child to 'see and understand nature,' the traits of nature, and thus also learn to respect them..."[5]

Later years

Sandelin also participated actively in the women's movement, was a member of the first National Association for Women's Suffrage and gave lectures at the women's congresses in London 1899 and in Berlin 1904.[2]

She died 7 August 1907 in Stockholm at 45 years of age and is buried in Northern Cemetery there.[1][2][6]

Selected published works

  • The Medical Training of Women in Sweden (1899)[4]
  • On Some Infectious Diseases and Their Social Dangers (1902)[2]
  • On the Moral Education of Youth (in the series "Popular Scientific Dissertations," 23, 1902)[2]
  • The Women's Body, its Building and Hygiene (1903)[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Hildebrand, Albin. "377 (Svenskt porträttgalleri / XIII. Läkarekåren (biografier af A. Levertin))". runeberg.org (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "647-648 (Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 24. Ryssläder - Sekretär)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). 1916. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  3. ^ "513-514 (Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 31. Ural - Vertex)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). 1921. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  4. ^ a b c Temair, Ishbel Gordon Marchioness of Aberdeen and (1900). The International Congress of Women of 1899. T. F. Unwin.
  5. ^ Levin, H. (2014) Sexualundervisning i Julita: Ett "tidens krav" omsatt i feministisk handling. In: Redaktionskommitté Anders Brändström, Sören Edvinsson, Tom Ericsson och Peter Sköld (ed.), Befolkningshistoriska perspektiv: Festskrift till Lars-Göran Tedebrand (pp. 85-106). Umeå (in Swedish)
  6. ^ "Sten nr 321 - Ellen Sandelin". Norra begravningsplatsen. 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2020-04-23.

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