Hilda Elfving

Hilda Vilhelmina Elfving (8 September 1827 – 8 January 1906) was a Swedish educator.

Elfving was born and died in Stockholm. She was the daughter of Johan Isak Elfving, lector at Stockholms gymnasium. She was the royal governess of Princess Louise of Sweden in 1857–1860. Her father participated in the Learning Courses for Women, which were held in Stockholm in 1859-1861 and replaced with the Högre lärarinneseminariet, where she became the first principal in 1861–1863. As principal, she made a trip to study the educational methods in Germany, Switzerland and France on governmental funds. She was succeeded as principal by Jane Miller Thengberg in 1863. She married the merchant Pontus Ferdinand Kobb and moved to Gothenburg the same year.

References

• Hilda Elfving i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864)
• Elfving, släkter, urn:sbl:15977, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, hämtad 2014-04-30