Honorine Hermelin


Honorine Hermelin was a Swedish headteacher, newspaper founder and feminist.

Life

Hermelin was born in Ekebyborna parish in 1886. Her mother Honorine died with in days. She had one sibling and she would gain seven more when her father, Joseph Hermelin, remarried.
, Ada Nilsson, Kerstin Hesselgren sitting, Honorine Hermelin and Elin Wägner
She qualified as a teacher and taught for over ten years before coming to notice as the headteacher of the Fogelstad Group's school for women. Under her leadership Kvinnliga medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad was known as "Lilla Ulfåsa". It was founded in 1925 and it continued under her leadership until 1954. This led to her coming the first woman to chair a school board in 1932. In 1947, she married to Vilhelm Grønbech but he died within eight months.
The newspaper Tidevarvet was founded in 1923 by Kerstin Hesselgren, Honorine Hermelin, who was an educator, Ada Nilsson, Elisabeth Tamm, a political politician, and Elin Wägner, who was an author.

Private life

She married for eight months. She had a very close relationship with Ada Nilsson such that during the last year of her life Nilsson came to stay at Fogelstad with Hermelin. Nilsson died in 1964 and Hermelin died in Brännkyrka parish in 1977.

Recognition

The King of Sweden awarded her the Illis quorum.
Siri Derkert created a portrait of her which is now in the Swedish National Museum.