Olly Donner

She was born to an upper-class family, as the only child of the industrialist Nicolas Sinebrychoff [fi] and his wife Anna née Nordenstam.

[2] The couple were personal friends with Rudolf Steiner, the founder of the anthroposophy movement.

[3] Olly Donner was educated in different schools in Europe, and was fluent, besides her native Swedish, also in French, German, English and Russian.

[4] She wrote in Swedish and French, releasing c. 30 books, including novels, and collections of short stories and poetry.

[5] An endowment, and later will, left by Olly and Uno Donner established the Donner Institute for Research into Religion and Culture, a private research institute and library collection which are today affiliated with the Åbo Akademi University.