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Anna Ahlström (19 July 1863 - 12 October 1943) was a Swedish schoolteacher and rector. In 1902 she founded the Ahlström School in Stockholm.

Biography

Anna Ahlström graduated from the Wallin School, the first gymnasium-level shool for girls in Sweden, in 1885. She continued her studies at Uppsala University, graduating in 1891. Ahlström then traveled in Italy and France and lived in Paris for a year before studying modern languages in Paris, London and Berlin. Ahlström graduated with a Ph.D from Uppsala University in 1899, with a French-language thesis about the language of Gustave Flaubert. She was was of the first women to obtain a Ph.D in Sweden, and Sweden's first female doctor of Romance languages.

Before completing her Ph.D

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