Märta Bucht

Following her father's death in 1894, her former headmistress covered the cost of her training as a schoolteacher at the Privata Högre Lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm from 1901 to 1903.

[1] On receiving her teaching diploma, Bucht returned to Luleå where she became a substitute teacher at the girls' school until she was engaged by Statens normalskola för flickor in Stockholm.

In 1907, she was appointed to a permanent post at the girls' school in Luleå where she taught Swedish, German, geography and singing.

[1] Shortly after its establishment in 1907, Bucht was elected chair of the Luleå branch of the Swedish women's suffrage association, participating both locally and at the national level.

Her interest in the movement is evident from the correspondence she maintained with Frigga Carlberg, an active member of the national association and chair of the Gothenburg branch.Thanks to a friendship she had established with the peace activist Matilda Widegren while studying, she joined the Swedish peace movement which developed as a result of the suffering in World War I.