Eva De la Gardie was born to statesman count Magnus Julius De la Gardie (1668–1741) and the amateur politiciany and salonist Hedvig Catharina Lilje: sister of Captain Carl Julius De la Gardie and Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie and the aunt of Axel von Fersen the Younger.
She was a Swedish agronomist, scientist, Salonist and noble (Countess)
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In 1746, Ekeblad wrote to the Royal Swedish Academy, of Sciences on her discoveries of how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes
In 1740, at the age of 16, Eva married the riksråd count Claes Claesson Ekeblad, and became the mother of seven children: one son and six daughters.
She also discovered a method of bleaching cotton textile and yarn with soap in 1751,and of replacing the dangerous ingredients in cosmetics of the time by using potato flour (1752);
she is said to have advertised the plant by using its flowers as hair ornaments.
In 1748, Eva Ekeblad became the first woman elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
In 1751, the Academy came to refer to her as an honorary rather than a full member, as the statutes confined membership to men
After the death of her spouse in 1771, she retired to the countryside. She was died on 15 May 1786
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