Emilie Risberg

Emilie Charlotta Risberg (10 June 1815, in Skara – 11 November 1890, in Örebro) was a Swedish writer and reform pedagogue.

She founded the Risbergska skolan (Risberg School) in Örebro, and served as its principal in 1863-1878.

She founded and managed a girls' school in Mariestad in 1842-1850, of which not much is known and which she herself stated was not of high quality, before she moved to Örebro.

Emilie Risberg and her school, along with Cecilia Fryxell and Karin Åhlin, belonged to the pioneers of this reform in girls education in Sweden.

[4] [5] Emilie Risberg was also a writer, and her novels were quite popular, especially Rolf och Alfhild (1860) and Warnhems ros (1861).