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Fredrika Bremer
Sign in to saveAlso known as Frederika Bremer, Miss Bremer
Swedish writer and feminist (1801–1865)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1801
- Died
- 1865
- Works
- 151
Top works
- Das haus, oder Familiensorgen und familienfreuden
- The president's daughters
- Strid och frid
- Presidentensdöttrar
- The neighbours
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1969-08-24
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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 6,796x
- First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole
· 2019 · cited 3,658x
- BRANCH SUPPORT AND TREE STABILITY
· 1994 · cited 2,098x
- First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way
· 2022 · cited 1,750x
- The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
· 2008 · cited 1,614x
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Quotes
- “A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one’s nose, it might weary us of our very lives.”
- “At a certain depth all bosoms communicate, all hearts are one.”
- “Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.”
- “If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.”
- “People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to our Laplanders, who measure a man’s worth by the number of his reindeer.”
- “Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.”
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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
Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Fredrika Bremer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~26 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fredrika Bremer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.