Emma Charlotte Stiasny Jacobsson (1883 in Vienna – 1977) was an Austrian-born Swedish botanist, art historian, knitwear designer, and entrepreneur.
[1] She earned a doctorate in botany in 1913;[2] her dissertation, Versuch einer histologisch-phylogenetischen Bearbeitung der Papilionaceae, concerned the phylogenetics of the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae or Papilionoideae.
As wife of the governor of Bohüslan, Jacobsson used her position to provide community leadership and improve economic conditions in the province by establishing a cottage industry in 1939.
[11] Emma Jacobsson’s vision for the company’s fashion brand and guidance led Bohus Stickning to achieve international name recognition.
[12] An entrepreneur, Jacobsson forged commercial connections for the Bohus Stickning cooperative with Nordiska Kompaniet in Stockholm[13] and Gillblads in Gothenburg,[14] and working through an export trade distributor, sold products to department stores in the United States such as Neiman Marcus.