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Dagny Maria Thorvall

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Dagny Maria Thorvall

Birth
Flackebo, Sala kommun, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Death
3 Sep 1933 (aged 50)
Stockholm, Stockholms kommun, Stockholms län, Sweden
Burial
Flackebo, Sala kommun, Västmanlands län, Sweden Add to Map
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Swedish teacher, writer, lecturer and one of the founders of Birkagården in Stockholm (with Natanael Beskow and Ebba Pauli), Sweden's first "settlement house" (hemgård), which had the goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community.

A chapter in a local history book listed at the University of Örebro Library is titled Ett helgon i Örebro?: Dagny Thorvall (1883-1933) (A saint in Örebro? Dagny Thorvall 1883-1933); from Patroner, gästgivare och andra kvinnor, by Gunnela Björk, Håkan Henriksson and Sture Isaksson, 2008.
Swedish teacher, writer, lecturer and one of the founders of Birkagården in Stockholm (with Natanael Beskow and Ebba Pauli), Sweden's first "settlement house" (hemgård), which had the goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community.

A chapter in a local history book listed at the University of Örebro Library is titled Ett helgon i Örebro?: Dagny Thorvall (1883-1933) (A saint in Örebro? Dagny Thorvall 1883-1933); from Patroner, gästgivare och andra kvinnor, by Gunnela Björk, Håkan Henriksson and Sture Isaksson, 2008.


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  • Created by: BobB
  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134561738/dagny_maria-thorvall: accessed ), memorial page for Dagny Maria Thorvall (18 Aug 1883–3 Sep 1933), Find a Grave Memorial ID 134561738, citing Fläckebo Kyrkogård, Flackebo, Sala kommun, Västmanlands län, Sweden; Maintained by BobB (contributor 47607961).