Erika Liebman Explained

Erika Liebman (1738 - 1803) was a Swedish poet and academic. She was likely the first woman student at Lunds universitet.

She was the daughter of professor Reinhold Liebman^[1] at the Lund university and was allowed to attend class.^[2] She would thereby be counted as the first woman to have studied at a Swedish university. She continued her studies as an adult, which aroused great attention because of her gender.

In November 1756, she was published in Latin in Svenska Merkurius:

Latin: Egregias, Scharffi, virtutes optime tractas, Et quæris genii spargere dona tui. Ipsa tuos laudo conatus; grator et opto, Istud quod tractas, sedulitate probes.

She married the vicar Magnus Sommar in Ingelstorp in 1761.

See also

• Aurora Liljenroth
• Betty Pettersson

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor. Project Runeberg. Project Runeberg. 3 January 2015. Runeberg.
2. Book: Aryes-Bennett . Wendy . Sanson . Helena . Women in the History of Linguistics . 2020 . Oxford University Press . 978-0198754954 . 259 . 18 October 2021.