Thora Wigardh | |
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Born | 7 June 1860 Gothenburg, Sweden |
Died | 13 October 1933 Gothenburg, Sweden |
Nationality | Swede |
Alma mater | Karolinska Institute |
Occupation | Physician |
Known for | First woman in the Gothenburg Doctors Association |
Thora Wigardh (1860–1933) was a Swedish physician and gynecologist.[1]
She was the daughter of customs administrator Jan Otto Granström and Maria Elisabeth Wiliamson and spent her early years in Gothenburg as well as in Marstrand and Sölvesborg.[1]
She was a student at the Kjellbergska flickskolan (Kjellbergska girls' school) in Gothenburg, and she was a teacher for five years before taking her matriculation exam as a private practitioner in Lund in 1886, becoming a medical candidate at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1892 and a medical licentiate there in 1897.[2]
Wigardh immediately began working as a physician, specifically, she was a gynecologist and became well known as a lecturer. She was the first woman in the Göteborgs Läkaresällskap (Gothenburg Doctors Association).[1]
She was a practicing physician in Gothenburg from the same year and the first female member of the Gothenburg Medical Society. She was a suffragist and a member of the Gothenburg branch of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden).[1]
The street Doktor Wigardhs Gata (Doctor Wigardh Street) at södra Guldheden in Gotheborg is named after her.[1]
On 19 December 1897, she married fellow medicine licentiate Pontus Erland Wigardh (1866–1907) but he died only a decade later after an illness.[1]
In 1933, Thora Wigardh died and was buried in the family gravesite in the Eastern cemetery, Gothenburg.[1]