Kjellbergska flickskolan

Kjellbergska flickskolan (The Kjellberg Girl School), was a Girls' School in Gothenburg in Sweden active between 1835 and 1943. 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 Brödraförsamlingens flickskola i Göteborg (1786) and Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola (1833) in Gothenburg, Askersunds flickskola (1812) in Askersund and Wallinska skolan (1831) in Stockholm.

The school's purpose was to provide education to make it possible for females to support themselves professionally, which separated it from the previous girls schools, which had the task to educate their students to ideal wives and mothers, and it was thereby a part of the wave of a new form of girls schools which was established in Sweden in the 19th-century. The school was founded by donation from the will of the rich merchant Jonas Kjellberg in 1832, and was opened in 1835.

References

• Göteborgs Kalender för 1857, Utgifven af S. A. Hedlund och Anton Berg, Hedlund & Lindskog, Göteborg 1857 s. 113
• Kronologiska anteckningar om viktigare händelser i Göteborg 1619-1982, Agne Rundqvist, Ralf Scander, Anders Bothén, Elof Lindälv, utgiven av Göteborgs hembygdsförbund 1982 s. 40, 60, 74, 112
• Från Börsen till Park Avenue: Intressanta göteborgsbyggnader uppförda mellan 1850 och 1950, uppställda i kronologisk ordning och avbildade på vykort, Ove Nylén, Haspen Förlag 1988 ISBN 91-970916-3-4 s. 46
• Kjellbergare : om en flickskola, red. Helena Jos Person, Kjellbergska flickskolans kamratförening, Göteborg 2010 ISBN 978-91-978806-5-7
• Marianne Johansson.En studie av synen på kvinnor och högre utbildning. I samband med läroverksreformen 1927