Erika Liebman

Erika Liebman (1738–1803) was a Swedish poet and academic. She was likely the first woman student^{[citation needed]} at Lunds universitet.

She was the daughter of professor Reinhold Liebman^[1] at Lund university and was allowed to attend class.^[2] She would thereby be counted as the first woman to have studied at a Swedish university. She continued her studies as an adult, and drew great attention because of her gender.

In November 1756, she was published in Latin in Svenska Merkurius:

Egregias, Scharffi, virtutes optime tractas,
Et quæris genii spargere dona tui.
Ipsa tuos laudo conatus; grator et opto,
Istud quod tractas, sedulitate probes.

She married the vicar Magnus Sommar in Ingelstorp in 1761.

See also

• Aurora Liljenroth
• Betty Pettersson