Maria Dorothea Dunckel née ''Altén'' (13 March 1799 – 30 November 1878), was a
Swedish
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poet
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,
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and
playwright
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.
Dunckel was born to the secretary Martin Altén and Kristina Dorotea Landwertz.
She wrote her first theatre play-manuscript at the age of nine (1808), and after this, assisted her father with translations.
Married in 1821 to the David Vilhelm Dunckel, vicar at the German parish of
Stockholm
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, and from 1823, vicar at the German parish in
Gothenburg
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.
[Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon]
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
Further reading
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1799 births
1878 deaths
19th-century Swedish women writers
Swedish women dramatists and playwrights
19th-century Swedish dramatists and playwrights
Translators to Swedish
19th-century translators