Fredrika Bremer
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1801
- Died
- 1865
- Works
- 151
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,723x
- First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole
· 2019 · cited 3,496x
- BRANCH SUPPORT AND TREE STABILITY
· 1994 · cited 2,092x
- First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way
· 2022 · cited 1,619x
- The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
· 2008 · cited 1,572x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1801-08-17 ) 17 August 1801, Turku , Sweden
- Died
- 31 December 1865 (1865-12-31) (aged 64), Årsta Castle , Sweden
- Occupation
- Writer
- Notable work
- Hertha
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1801
- Died
- 1 January 1865
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Article
Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finnish-born Swedish writer and reformer. Her Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and she is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen, bringing the realist novel to prominence in Swedish literature.
In her late 30s, Bremer successfully petitioned King Charles XIV for emancipation from her brother's wardship; in her 50s, her novel Hertha prompted a social movement that granted all unmarried Swedish women legal majority at the age of 25 and established Högre Lärarinneseminariet, Sweden's first female tertiary school. It also inspired Sophie Adlersparre to begin publishing the Home Review, Sweden's first women's magazine as well as the later magazine Hertha. In 1884, she became the namesake of the Fredrika Bremer Association, the first women's rights organization in Sweden.