Adèle Weman (1844–1936) was a Finnish-Swedish teacher, writer, playwright, and poet who used mainly the pen name Parus Ater (also Inge Storm and Zakarias).
She lived most of her life in Kimito, Kimitoön, and she did pioneering work in education, culture, and youth association activities. In the 1860s, she founded a Swedish-language school for rural children in Kimito, and later became the teacher at Kimito’s first national school, which was established in 1873. The new Vreta school was opened in 1882, and Weman worked there until she was 72 years old.
Together with a teacher, collector and founder of Sagalund museum Nils Oskar Jansson (1862–1927), who had originally been one of her students, she also founded the Kimito Youth Association at the end of the 19th century (the various associations merged and in 1896 they were named Kimito ungdomsförening). Weman’s plays and other literary works were popular in Swedish-speaking circles at the beginning of the 20th century, and she had extensive and influential networks. In her retirement, she lived in an apartment in the eastern wing of Villa Sagalund, which was built as a museum park in 1911.
After Adèle Weman’s death, the apartment was preserved as a museum, and the museum has kept her manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, and other materials in its archives.
