Rudbeckii flickskola

Rudbeckii flickskola (Rudbeck Girls' School) also called Pigeskolan (The Maidens' School) and Parthenagogium, was the first school for girls in Sweden. It was founded in the city of Västerås by the Bishop of Västerås, Johannes Rudbeckius in 1632.

Johannes Rudbeckius had founded the first Gymnasium (school) for males in 1623. He had the opinion that females should also be given education, and therefore founded a girl school in 1632. The law had already in 1575 stated the girls should receive schooling, but it had left the responsibility to provide schools for them to the responsibility of the local authorities and city, and in reality no schools had been founded, and this school was thereby the first implement of the law. The school was publicly financed and mainly received students from the poor classes and orphans. It was ignited with references to the education the biblical Susanna. It provided elementary education and the subject were reading, writing, Christianity, mathematics and handicrafts. The staff consisted with the male principal and a female teacher, who was also his wife. It was under supervision of the bishop, who apparently always had a special interest in its welfare.

Though there are examples of individual girls who were allowed to study in schools' for boys in Sweden during the 17th-century, no other school for girls were founded in Sweden until the next century, and no school for girls offered any serious academic education to females until the Societetsskolan in 1786. In the city of Västerås specifically, no new school for girls was founded until a student of Cecilia Fryxell, Natalia Andersson, founded her school in 1858.

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