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Thora Wigardh

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Thora Wigardh
Born7 June 1860
Gothenburg, Sweden
Died13 October 1933
Gothenburg, Sweden
NationalitySwede
Alma materKarolinska Institute
OccupationPhysician
Known forFirst woman in the Gothenburg Doctors Association

Thora Wigardh (1860–1933) was a Swedish physician and gynecologist.[1]

Life and work

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She was the daughter of customs administrator Jan Otto Granström and Maria Elisabeth Wiliamson and spent her early years in Gothenburg as well as in Marstrand and Sölvesborg.[1]

She was a student at the Kjellbergska flickskolan (Kjellbergska girls' school) in Gothenburg, and she was a teacher for five years before taking her matriculation exam as a private practitioner in Lund in 1886, becoming a medical candidate at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1892 and a medical licentiate there in 1897.[2]

Wigardh immediately began working as a physician, specifically, she was a gynecologist and became well known as a lecturer. She was the first woman in the Göteborgs Läkaresällskap (Gothenburg Doctors Association).[1]

She was a practicing physician in Gothenburg from the same year and the first female member of the Gothenburg Medical Society. She was a suffragist and a member of the Gothenburg branch of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden).[1]

The street Doktor Wigardhs Gata (Doctor Wigardh Street) at södra Guldheden in Gotheborg is named after her.[1]

Personal life

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On 19 December 1897, she married fellow medicine licentiate Pontus Erland Wigardh (1866–1907) but he died only a decade later after an illness.[1]

In 1933, Thora Wigardh died and was buried in the family gravesite in the Eastern cemetery, Gothenburg.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Thora Alfhilda Evelina Wigardh, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/ThoraAlfhildaEvelinaWigardh, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (artikel av Thomas Gütebier), hämtad 2023-11-15.
  2. ^ Hildebrand, Albin. "473 (Svenskt porträttgalleri / XIII. Läkarekåren (biografier af A. Levertin))". runeberg.org (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-11-19.