Aurore Storckenfeldt

Hedvig Amalia Aurora "Aurore" Storckenfeldt (26 December 1816 in Varnum [sv] – 21 July 1900 in Jönköping) was a Swedish reform pedagogue.

She founded the Storckenfeldtska skolan (The Storchefeldt School) in Jönköping, and served as its principal in 1847–1891, during which time it was regarded as one of the best educational institutions for females in the nation.

She was given the education regarded appropriate for a female of her class at the time: French language, the Bible and etiquette.

At the time of the introduction of the compulsory elementary school in Sweden in 1842, there were only five schools in Sweden to provide academic education and secondary education to females; Societetsskolan (1786), Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola (1815) and Kjellbergska flickskolan (1833) in Gothenburg, Askersunds flickskola (1812) in Askersund and Wallinska skolan (1831) in Stockholm.

In 1847, Aurore Storckenfeldt founded the Storchefeldt School in Jönköping with room for 20 students to meet the demand for higher academic education for potentially professional middle class women.