Karolīne Kronvalde

Karolīne Lizete Kronvalde, née Roloff (2 April 1836 – 23 October 1913) was a Latvian teacher and feminist.

Educational opportunities for girls were lacking during her childhood and she was largely self-educated; she received a teaching qualification from the Jelgava Gymnasium in 1855.

Teaching in the town of Durbe in 1860, she met her future husband Atis Kronvalds who also was a teacher there.

She moved back to Vecpiebalga in 1889 to live with her daughter Milda Sliede and remained there until her death on 23 October 1913.

[1] The first discussion on women's rights in Latvia occurred in 1870 in the pages of the Baltic Herald after it published an article entitled On Friday Evening (Latvian: Piektdienas vakarā) by someone named Garrs.