# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elsa-eschelsson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:53:34.757Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elsa-eschelsson"
name: "Elsa Eschelsson"
slug: "elsa-eschelsson"
description: "Elsa Olava Kristina Eschelsson was the first woman to finish a Doctor of Laws degree and the first to attain the academic position of docent at a Swedish university, but was denied the right to even serve as acting professor because of her sex. She died in 1911 from an overdose of sleeping-powder."
tagline: "Swedish lawyer & academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elsa_Eschelsson_O._Alins_album_s._10_(cropped).tif?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1861-11-11"
deathDate: "1911-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.1
  momentum:             4.285714285714285
  historical:           7.672426666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Elsa Eschelsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Eschelsson"
    title: "Elsa Eschelsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Eschelsson"
    title: "Elsa Eschelsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Eschelsson"
    title: "Elsa Eschelsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Eschelsson"
    title: "Elsa Eschelsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ელზა ეშელსონი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%95%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Елза Ешелсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Эшельссон, Эльса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Eschelsson"
    title: "Elsa Eschelsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump