bergenpixFosswinckels gate. To locals today, this is the street basketball court of St. Paul School, next to the social sciences faculty. Back then it was Ulrike Pihl School for girls.
Ulrike Pihl was orphaned early and was sent to England for schooling in arts and education. Beginning as a governess and an arts teacher, she later took over a girl's school from her uncle in 1865, and – considered radical at that point – introduced the girls to physical education in addition to the teachings and bildung more normal at girl's schools at the time.
Pihl ran the school until 1881, and kept on as a teacher until the 1890s, before she died in 1917.
bergenpix Fosswinckels gate. To locals today, this is the street basketball court of St. Paul School, next to the social sciences faculty. Back then it was Ulrike Pihl School for girls.
Show moreUlrike Pihl was orphaned early and was sent to England for schooling in arts and education. Beginning as a governess and an arts teacher, she later took over a girl's school from her uncle in 1865, and – considered radical at that point – introduced the girls to physical education in addition to the teachings and bildung more normal at girl's schools at the time.
Pihl ran the school until 1881, and kept on as a teacher until the 1890s, before she died in 1917.
Photo Unknown, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bros-01043.html
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