Fredrika Runeberg
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Fredrika Runeberg in 1875
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| Born | Fredrika Tengström September 2, 1807 Jakobstad, Kingdom of Sweden |
| Died | May 27, 1879 (aged 71) Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire |
| Occupation | novelist, short story writer, journalist |
Fredrika Charlotta Runeberg (September 2, 1807, Jakobstad – May 27, 1879, Helsinki), born Fredrika Tengström, was a Finnish (Finland-Swedish) novelist, journalist and the wife of Finland's national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg. She was a pioneer of Finnish historical fiction and one of the first woman journalists in Finland.
In her own time, she was mainly known as the wife of her famous husband, poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg. The family lived most of their life in Porvoo, where she created most of her works, including the historical novel Fru Catharina Boije och hennes döttrar (1858). She wrote in Swedish.
Born in a borgeoise family in Jakobstad, Fredrika Tengström lived most of her youth in Turku, the then capital of Finland. She was educated in Anna Salmberg's school for girls in 1824-25. She met her future husband, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, her second cousin, while living with her great uncle Jakob Tengström, Archbishop of Turku, in Pargas, having lost her home in the Great Fire of Turku in 1827. In 1828, she moved to Helsinki, the new capital, with her mother, and married Runeberg in January 1831. The family settled in Porvoo and had seven sons; the only daughter died an infant.
Fredrika Runeberg was the first Finnish author to critically analyze the status of women, at home and in the society. Her oevre includes the two historical novels, Fru Catharina Boije och hennes döttrar (1858), set in Finland during the Great Northern War, and Sigrid Liljeholm (1862), set in the Cudgel War. She also contributed to various newspapers and magazines, and translated foreign literature and articles, mostly from French, German and English, into Swedish.
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