Charlotte Thitz

Anna Charlotte Thitz (11 December 1799, in Loviisa – 22 March 1889, in Helsinki), was a Finnish educator. She was active as a governess and the leader of a girls school. She is considered as an important representative of the contemporary development of female education in Finland.[1]

She was the daughter of the miniature painter Anders Gustaf Thitz from Germany. She managed a girls school in Loviisa from 1826 until 1841, after which she worked as a private teacher, a governess and gave private lessons in piano playing to upper class families in Vaasa and Heinola until 1870.