Hedda Andersson

Hedda Andersson
Born	24 April 1861 Malmö, Sweden
Died	7 September 1950 Lund, Sweden
Alma mater	Lund University
Occupation	Physician
Known for	Second university-educated woman physician in Sweden

Hedda Albertina Andersson (24 April 1861, in Malmö – 7 September 1950, in Lund), was a Swedish physician. She was the second female student at Lund University and the second university-educated woman physician in Sweden.^[1]

Life

Hedda Andersson was the daughter of a male laborer named Andersson and the

On her mother's side, she descended from a line of medicine women, known to have practiced traditional

When the universities of Sweden were opened to women in 1870, her mother and grandmother decided that she should study medicine at a university and obtain a formal license, to avoid being persecuted and accused of quackery, which had been the case with many women in the history of their family,[4] such as her grandmother and mother. Hedda Andersson was educated at the school of Maria Stenkula, and was admitted to Lund University in 1880.

She has been referred to as the first female student there, though actually this was

She was active as a doctor in Ronneby 1892–95, in Malmö in 1893–95, and in Stockholm 1895–1925, after which she settled in Lund.

Memorials

A Visiting scholar Professorship was created at the Lund University in 2009 in memory of Hedda Andersson.^[5]

See also

• Betty Pettersson
• Emmy Rappe
• Sofia Holmgren

References

• Margareta Wickström: Medicinska Fackulteten, Lunds universitet
• Gothenburg University Library, newspaper article dated January 24, 1896
• Margareta Wickström: Medicinska fakulteten, Lunds universitet
• Idun. Nummer 6, 1891
• Idun. Nummer 4, 1896
• Schenlær, Margareta, Malmökvinnor, Malmö kulturhistoriska fören., Malmö, 2003

Further reading

• Hedda Andersson at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon