Calla Curman, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Calla Curman

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1850

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1935

Profession: socialite, salonnière, philanthropist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Calla Curman, née Lundström (1850–1935), was a Swedish writer, salon-holder and feminist.
She was the founder of Stångehuvud nature reserve (1925), ladies' club Nya Idun (1885), which was the female equivalent of the all-male cultural club Sällskapet Idun, and a board member of a number of societies, notably Friends of Handicraft in 1880–1904, and the Swedish Dress Reform Society.
During the 1880s and 1890s, she hosted De Curmanska mottagningarna ('Curman Receptions'), a well-known literary salon. Calla Lundström was born to rich industrialist Karl Frans Lundström and Sofie Malmberg, and received in-home tutoring from a private tutor.
In 1868, she married doctor Adolf Liljenroth (1836–1874) and in 1878, she married professor Karl Peter Curman.