Hilda Elfving

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Hilda Vilhelmina Elfving (8 September 1827 – 8 January 1906) was a Swedish educator.

Elfving was born and died in Stockholm. She was the was the daughter of the lector at Stockholms gymnasium, J. J. Elfving. She was the royal governess of Princess Louise of Sweden in 1857-1860, and the first principal of the Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm 1861-1863. As principal, she made a trip to study the educational methods in Germany, Switzerland and France on governmental funds. She was succeeded as principal by Jane Miller Thengberg in 1863.

References

Hilda Elfving i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864)

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