Sophie Elkan

Swedish writer and translator (1853-1921)

Sophie Elkan
Sophie Elkan née Salomon (3 January 1853, Gothenburg –5 April 1921, Gothenburg), was a Swedish writer and translator. Life. Sophie Salomon was born to the merchant Alexander Salomon and Henriette Abrahamson: her parents had migrated to Sweden from Germany. Her elder brother, Otto Salomon was an educator. She was raised in a happy home and affected strongly by her intellectual mother. In 1872 she married her cousin, the music book seller Nathan Elkan (1834-1879), with whom she had a daughter, Kerstin (1877-1879). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Elkan

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