Charlotte von Schéele

Johanna Sofia Charlotta (Charlotte) von Schéele (17 August 1840 – 14 April 1929) was a Swedish organist, singing teacher and artist. Charlotte von Schéele was born in 1840 in Filipstad. She was the daughter of the superintendent Frans Adolf von Schéele and Maria Elisabeth Lundqvist and the sister of the artist Augusta Ekman as well as the niece of the artist Carl von Schéele. Von Schéele trained at Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and having finished her education, she worked as an organist in Filipstad from 1866; she was the first woman hired as an organist in the Church of Sweden.