Brödraförsamlingens flickskola i Göteborg

Brödraförsamlingens flickskola i Göteborg (The Girl School of the Unity of the Brethren in Gothenburg) or Evangeliska Brödraförsamlingens flickskola i Göteborg (The Girl School of the Unity of the Evangelical Brethren in Gothenburg), also called Salsskolan (The Hall School), Societetsskolan i Göteborg för döttrar (The Society School for Daughters in Gotheburg) or Societetsskolan (The Society School), was a Swedish Girls school managed by the congregation of the Moravian Church in Gothenburg from 1786 until 1857. It is referred to as the first girl's school in Sweden, because it was the first institution to provide serious academic education to females. At the time of the introduction of the compulsory elementary school in Sweden in 1842, it was one of five schools in Sweden to provide academic education to females; the others being Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola (1815) and Kjellbergska flickskolan (1833) in Gothenburg, Askersunds flickskola (1812) in Askersund and Wallinska skolan (1831) in Stockholm.

The school is often referred to as the first girl school in Sweden. Technically, this is not correct, as they were numerous schools for girls before, but the distinction is made to separate it from the previous girl schools; the earlier educational institutions for females, starting with the Rudbeckii flickskola founded by Johannes Rudbeckius in Västerås in 1632, normally only gave a shallow education meant to foster the students to ideal wives and mothers, such as the French language, music, dance, manners, household tasks and sewing. This school was therefore a new form of girl school by giving females serious academic education, and it is therefore called the first girls school. The school had the goal to give females a more equal education to males, in accordance with the ideals of gender equality which was prevalent for the Moravian Church. Except for the more traditional subjects such as sewing and household tasks, the subjects was Swedish, German, French, English, Geography, Mathematics, Drawing and Music. The official main subject of the school was Christian Ethic Morals. The school had a very good reputation and high popularity rate from the start, and the students came from the more wealthy parts of the burgher classes. Cecilia Fryxell, counted as great reformer of women's education, was a teacher her in 1846-47. Among its students were the writer Emily Nonnen and the reform pedagogue Mathilda Hall.

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