1. Nanna Charlotta Svartz was a Swedish physician and the first female professor at a public university in Sweden.
14 Facts About Nanna Svartz
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Nanna Svartz was one of five children of Johan Anshelm Svartz, a Latin teacher with a Ph.
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Nanna Svartz's siblings were born between 1880 and 1885, but died all from 1887 to 1904.
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Nanna Svartz went to the local girls' school, but girls were not allowed to take the studentexamen there.
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Nanna Svartz obtained her undergraduate degree in 1914 and a licentiate in medicine in 1918.
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Nanna Svartz stayed at Karolinska Institute afterwards to follow her postgraduate studies and got her Ph.
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Nanna Svartz worked in a number of Stockholm's medical institutions, progressing from the position of an assistant to an overlakare, the assistant medical director, in 1936.
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Nanna Svartz was finally chosen by vote of the Karolinska lecturers.
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Nanna Svartz always wore a suit and tie and even hid her pregnancy, only notifying her colleagues after the child was born.
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Nanna Svartz hosted the organisation's third congress in Stockholm in 1954.
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Nanna Svartz went on working as an active physician until 1957 and only stepped down as the head of the institute in 1960.
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Nanna Svartz died in 1986 at the age of 96 in Stockholm.
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Nanna Svartz was married to pediatrician Nils Malmberg after her licentiate on 12 October 1918.
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Nanna Svartz was interested in feminist issues from an early age on, for example when listening to a talk about women's suffrage in Vasteras.