Helena Eldrup
Swedish educator
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.
Life
Helena Eldrup 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.
Educational career
She was for a time employed as 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.
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