| Intro | Swedish actor and director | ||||
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Dancer Actor Choreographer Cartoonist Film director |
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| From | Sweden | ||||
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Arts Dancing Film, TV, Stage & Radio |
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| Gender | female | ||||
| Birth | 23 April 1919, Gothenburg | ||||
| Death |
6 March 2007, Stockholm (aged 87 years) |
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Ellen Bergman (1842-1921), was a Swedish musician and women’s rights activist. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Ellen Bergman worked as a singing teacher at the Högre lärarinneseminariet and Royal College of Music, Stockholm in 1868-99. For her achievements in musical teaching, she was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1876.
Bergman is known as a leading member of the Svenska Federationen, the Swedish branch of the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts of Josephine Butler, which was founded in 1878 and worked against prostitution and particularly the abusive genital examinations of registered prostitutes. She was involved in a conflict with August Strindberg because of her views of gender, who once referred to her as: “The damn mare Ellen Bergman”.
She was given the Illis Quorum in 1899.