Georgina Archer

Georgina Archer (27 September 1827 – 18 November 1882) was a German (originally Scottish) women's rights activist and educator.

The ambition was not to start a university but to provide lectures to women whose education had ceased after they left school.

By 1875 they had more than 900 students taking courses in the history of art, German and French literature, botany, physics, geology, chemistry and pedagogy.

Archer had allowed two separate attempts at offering philosophy lectures, but after two teachers were considered unacceptable, the subject was abandoned.

[2] Her role in leading the Lyceum was taken on by Alix von Cotta, who had like Archer been educated in England.