Therese Kamph

[1][2] She is credited with having developed the school to one of the foremost institutions for secondary education for women in Sweden.

[3] In 1872, she succeeded Helena Eldrup as principal of Kjellbergska flickskolan, where she was to play a significant part in the development of the institution.

[5] She had the ambition to make the school one of the most prestigious in the nation, and is described as an ambitious and energetic person, with a temperament and radical ideas which caused conflicts, but charm enough to overcome them.

[6] She made several study trips abroad to keep up to date with the latest international educational ideas, launching a radical reform program in the institution.

[4] She also initiated a teacher's seminary for adult women educators,[4] which was realised in 1884, though her successor did not manage to keep them longer than two years, and they had to be reintroduced in 1908.