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Jón Þorláksson

One of his sisters, Björg Þorláksdóttir, was for example the first Icelandic woman to receive a doctorate, from the Sorbonne in 1926.

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Jón Þorláksson was a classical liberal who had learnt his economics from the well-known Swedish economist Gustav Cassel.

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Jón Þorláksson graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1897, highest in his class and with the best results ever given to a student at that school.

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