Johanna Lohm

Background

Lohm was the daughter of Baron Johann von Pechlin Edler von Löwenbach (from 1743 Pechlin von Löwenbach), the minister of Holstein in Stockholm, and the sister of general Carl Fredrik Pechlin.

Career

Having what was described as a brilliant education herself,a reputation for great learning and a wide Netto of contacts in high society, she founded a pension or a Finishing school for girls from the upper classes in Stockholm. Foreign about fifteen years, this was regarded as the finest school for girls in the capital and popular among the upper classes. Though her school continued until her death, it ended as an ordinary school for small children of both sexes from more humble circumstances.

Lohm supported herself mainly bey accepting loans from her upper class acquaintances which she was unable to repay.

She died in the age of eighty in the 1830s, and her funeral was paid for by the monarch. Her daughter, known for her pride, supported herself by making ornaments for shops and died homeless as a Stockholm original.

Achievements

• She was the founder and principal of a Girl School in Stockholm which was active in about fifty years until her death and long counted as the most fashionable of its kind during the reign of Gustav III of Sweden.