Personal fonds of Björg C. Þorláksson (1874–1934)

The fonds of Björg C. Þorláksson (1874–1934) contain personal items belonging to Björg. Björg was the first Icelandic woman to hold a doctoral degree, becoming the first woman from the Nordic countries to defend a doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne on 17 June 1926. She lived in Copenhagen and Paris and co-compiled a Danish-Icelandic dictionary with her husband Sigfús Blöndal. However, she was not credited as an author, and the couple divorced.