Dorothea Dunckel Explained

Maria Dorothea Dunckel née Altén (13 March 1799 – 30 November 1878), was a Swedish poet, translator and playwright.

Dunckel was born to the secretary Martin Altén and Kristina Dorotea Landwertz.^[1]

She wrote her first theatre play-manuscript at the age of nine (1808), and after this, assisted her father with translations.^[2]

Married in 1821 to the David Vilhelm Dunckel, vicar at the German parish of Stockholm, and from 1823, vicar at the German parish in Gothenburg.^[3]

Work

• Receptet (translation, 1813)
• Förlofningen (play, 1817)
• Förstlingar (1824)
• Dramatiska och lyriska försök (poems, 4 parts 1828–1832)

Marie, en liten gåfva i bref mina unga landsmaninnor (1830)

• Vilhelms brefväxling med sina vänner (1835)
• Pensionsvännerna (1842)
• Två systrar i Östergötland (1844)
• Gammalt och nytt ur min portfölj (1865)

References

• Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon

Notes and References

1. Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon
2. Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon
3. Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon