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Palmgrenska samskolan ('Palmgren Coeducational School'), originally Praktiska arbetsskolan för barn och ungdom ('Practical Work School for Children and Youth'), in Stockholm, Sweden, was the first school in Scandinavia to offer coeducation up to the studentexamen.
Palmgrenska samskolan, ursprungligen Praktiska arbetsskolan för barn och ungdom, Stockholm, var den första skolan i Skandinavien med samundervisning fram till studentexamen. Man var även först med att erbjuda undervisning i slöjd vid sidan av de teoretiska ämnena.
Den 16 oktober 1876 öppnades av K. E. Palmgren den ”Praktiska arbetsskolan för barn och ungdom”, som Palmgrenska samskolan från början hette. Den låg i Brunkebergs hotell, i två där hyrda salar. Eleverna vara mellan 5 och 14 år gamla, både pojkar och flickor tillsammans. Allt som allt uppgick antalet till 83 stycken.
Den 16 oktober 1876 öppnades av K. E. Palmgren den ”Praktiska arbetsskolan för barn och ungdom”, som Palmgrenska samskolan från början hette. Den låg i Brunkebergs hotell, i två där hyrda salar. Eleverna vara mellan 5 och 14 år gamla, både pojkar och flickor tillsammans. Allt som allt uppgick antalet till 83 stycken.
- Upbringing and Education
- Royal Library
- Study Trip to The United States
- Library Researcher and Election to The City Council
- Marriage and Family Life
- Sons
- Lecturer and Educator in Denmark
- Commitment to The Nordic Countries, Peace and Women's Issues
- Contact with Sweden and Later Years
Valfrid Palmgren was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 3 June 1877, the second daughter of Karl Edvard A. H. Palmgren (1840–1910) and Ida Teresia Pohl (1853–1937), and was known as "Vava" at home. Her siblings were elder sister Signe Maria Elisabet (born 1875), Sigrid Hildegun Anna (1882–1883) and Gustaf (born 1884). She would have had another brother,...
In 1903, Palmgren had contacted Carl Snoilsky, head librarian at the Royal Library (Kungliga biblioteket), but her request for employment was not granted. He advised her to take her doctorate first. Before she completed her doctoral thesis in May 1905, Palmgren approached Snoilsky's successor, head librarian Erik Wilhelm Dahlgren[sv]; he was signif...
In her work at the Royal Library, Palmgren often had to inform visitors hungry for knowledge that most of the library's books were not for home loan and refer them to public or workers' libraries. But she soon realized (after visiting the public libraries) that they did not have the literature she was looking for and were not intended for people wh...
In 1909, the Heimdal Association[sv] published Palmgren's "Biblioteket – en ljushärd" in its series of small publications. This was a popular version of her travel report "Bibliotek och folkuppfostran" ('Libraries and Public Education'), and it was aimed at politicians and other decision-makers, association members, teachers and others who needed t...
Palmgren was almost 34 when she married Jon Julius Munch-Petersen in 1911, a hydraulic engineer and lecturer at the Technical University of Denmark, whom she had met in the early 1900s during their family's summer stays at Ramlösa mineral spa, south of Helsingborg. When she was officially invited by the Copenhagen City Council in her capacity as a ...
Her son Gustaf Munch-Petersen had had difficulty finding the right path in life. He had studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Copenhagen and art history at Lund University before realizing he would become a writer, and in 1932 he made his debut with "det nøgne menneske" 'The Naked Man', the publication of which was paid for by his ...
In Denmark, Palmgren Munch-Petersen continued her work on library and women's issues. She was a member of the board of the Copenhagen Municipal Library from 1918 to 1936, and the minutes of the board show that she shared her experience of working on library issues in Stockholm. As early as 1914, she became a member of the board of the Danish Women'...
In 1919, Denmark, Norway and Sweden founded the Nordic Association to deepen the sense of belonging between the Nordic peoples, broaden their cultural and economic ties and promote mutual cooperation. Finland and Iceland joined several years later. The Danish Women's Society, in which Palmgren Munch-Petersen was active, was also a driving force in ...
Throughout her years in Denmark, Palmgren Munch-Petersen kept in touch with Sweden, where her mother lived until 1937, and her sister Signe and her family lived in Stockholm. She was a frequent lecturer in Sweden as well, and every year at Christmas time she visited Malmö's Children's and Youth Library, which she had helped to found in connection w...
Palmgrenska samskolan, ursprungligen "Praktiska arbetsskolan för barn och ungdom", grundades hösten 1876 av pedagogen Karl Edvard Palmgren. Skolan var den första i Stockholm med samundervisning för pojkar och flickor, liksom den första som erbjöd slöjdundervisning.
Privat realskola och gymnasium, stats- och kommununderstödd. Grundad 1876 av Karl Edvard Abraham Henning Palmgren (1840-1910). Ursprungligen såväl slöjdskola som lässkola men utvecklades till ett högre läroverk med slöjd som utmärkande drag. Kommunaliserad 1974 och nedlagd 1977.
