Elisabet Eurén (born Elisabeth Matilda Vilhelmina Eurén; 9 July 1864 – 20 August 1939) was a Swedish educator, women's rights and peace activist.
Born in Stora Kopparberg parish, Eurén graduated from a teaching seminary in Stockholm in 1884. After several years of teaching at different schools for girls and travelling abroad multiple times, she was appointed by Umeå public school training seminary in 1893. There, she instigated several reforms, including the opening of a school library and the establishment of a municipal workhouse.
In 1903, she became chair of the local suffragist branch of the National Association for Women's Suffrage until she left Umeå for the Swedish capital about a year later. In Stockholm, she began working at the public school training seminary as a teacher and librarian. In 1918, she was one of the first women in Sweden to be appointed as lecturer at a higher learning institute, a position she occupied until her retirement in 1924.
During her Stockholm years, Eurén was also active in the peace movement and the inclusion of pacifist thinking in school teaching, as well as ecumenical religious movements. She died in 1939 and is buried in Solna.
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