Alida Knös

Alida Knos was born in 1786 in Fors, Avesta Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden. She was born during her father's third marriage. Her father later died while she was eight years old. She then moved with her mother to her ancestral home, Åsbräcka in Västergötland. In 1810 she married Gustav Knös, professor of Greek and Eastern languages. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1817 and became a prebendary parish priest in Västeråker and Dalby's pastorate. The couple had two daughters. The eldest daughter Nanny died in 1821, while she was nine years old. When her husband died in 1828, Alida Knös was left alone with her 13-year-old daughter Thekla Knös. Through Karl XIV Johan, a small pension was arranged for them. Alida and Thekla Knös were called in Uppsala de små knösarna (the little knuckles), and their home det lilla fågelboet (the bird's nest). Many of the city's literary and musical men went there after visiting Malla Silfverstolpe's salon.[1][2][3][4]

Alida Knös died in 1855 and she is buried in the family grave at the Gamla kyrkogården cemetery in Uppsala.[5][2][1]

• Övkvist, Linda (2018). Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, (In Swedish). University of Gothenburg. ISBN 978-91-639-7594-3.

• Grosjean, Alexia. Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon [Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women], (In English). University of Gothenburg. ISBN 978-91-639-7594-3.
• Samlaren (in Swedish). Svenska litteratursällskapet. 1999.

• Alida Maria Knös at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon