Tekla Hultinová

Thekla (Tekla) Johanna Virginia Hultin was a Finnish journalist, politician and feminist. She was the first woman in Finland to be awarded a Ph.D. She was a journalist at Päivälehti, the newspaper of the Young Finnish Party, founded the Women's Kagal resistance organisation during the Russification of Finland, and played a central role in securing women's suffrage in 1906. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1908 to 1924.