Hedda Andersson

Hedda Albertina Andersson (24 April 1861, in Malmö – 7 September 1950, in Lund), was a Swedish physician.

Her grandmother was famous in all Scandinavia as the Lundakvinnan ("Woman of Lund"), and had educated herself to a barber surgeon to avoid being accused of quackery, as did her daughter, the mother of Hedda, for the same reason.

When the universities of Sweden were opened to women in 1870, her mother and grandmother decided that she should study medicine at a university and obtain a formal license, to avoid being persecuted and accused of quackery, which had been the case with many women in the history of their family,[4] such as her grandmother and mother.

Hedda Andersson was educated at the school of Maria Stenkula, and was admitted to Lund University in 1880.

A Visiting scholar Professorship was created at the Lund University in 2009 in memory of Hedda Andersson.