Erika Liebman (1738–1803) was a Swedish poet and academic. She was likely the first woman student at Lunds universitet.

She was the daughter of professor Reinhold Liebman[1] at the Lund university and was allowed to attend class.[2] She would thereby be counted as the first woman to have studied at a Swedish university. She continued her studies as an adult, which aroused great attention because of her gender.

In November 1756, she was published in Latin in Svenska Merkurius:

Egregias, Scharffi, virtutes optime tractas,
Et quæris genii spargere dona tui.
Ipsa tuos laudo conatus; grator et opto,
Istud quod tractas, sedulitate probes.

She married the vicar Magnus Sommar in Ingelstorp in 1761.

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  1. ↑ "Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor". Project Runeberg. Project Runeberg. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Aryes-Bennett, Wendy; Sanson, Helena (2020). Women in the History of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-0198754954. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
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