# Fredrika Wetterhoff

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**Fredrika Wetterhoff** (14 January 1844 – 14 April 1905) was a Finnish teacher. She founded the Wetterhoff Craft School.

## Biography

Wetterhoff was born on 14 January 1844 in [Helsinki](/source/Helsinki), Finland.[1] Her father was Georg Adolf Wetterhoff.[2] Wetterhoff was born into a [Swedish](/source/Swedish_language)-speaking [gentry](/source/Gentry) family and also learned [Finnish](/source/Finnish_language), [French](/source/French_language) and [German](/source/German_language).[1][3]

In 1885, Wetterhoff founded a girls' work school in [Hämeenlinna](/source/H%C3%A4meenlinna), which became known as the Wetterhoff Craft School.[1][4] Students were taught skills including sewing bed linen, knitting, crocheting, weaving cloth, straw work, wood carving and geometric drawing. The school produced bed linen for the Hämeenlinna hospital as well as selling products.[4]

She died on 14 April 1905 in [Hämeenlinna](/source/H%C3%A4meenlinna), aged 61.[citation needed]

## References

1. ["Fredrika Wetterhoff perusti Wetterhoffin talon"](https://www.wetterhoff.fi/historia/fredrika-wetterhoff). *Wetterhoff Oy*. Retrieved 2025-05-07.

1. ["Fredrika Wetterhoff"](https://www.tietokirstu.fi/artikkelit/fredrika-wetterhoff/) (in Finnish). *Tietokirstu - Dräktskrin*. Retrieved 2025-05-07.

1. ["Kertomus Fredrika Wetterhoffin elämästä"](https://kotiseutuliitto.fi/kertomus-fredrika-wetterhoffin-elamasta/) (in Finnish). *Suomen Kotiseutuliitto*. Retrieved 2025-05-07.

1. Korppi-Tommola, Aura. ["WETTERHOFF, Fredrika"](https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=4163). *www.blf.fi*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20250126213550/https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=4163) 26 January 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-05-07.

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