Ingeborg Walberg (

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von Düben; 6 December 1862 – 17 March 1943) was a

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Early life

Ingeborg Walberg was born a

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() on Stora Lundby in 1862 in Överselö,

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. Her father,

Cesar von Düben Cesar von Düben (24 November 1819 – 18 September 1888) was a Swedish photographer, Exploration, explorer and writer. A pioneering photographer working with the photographic process called daguerreotype, Von Düben set up, according to paper tr ...

, was a pioneering photographer and a member of the

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, renowned for its contributions to Swedish music history. Her mother, Augusta Lilliestråle, belonged to the Lilliestråle family and was also a writer. Walberg was the granddaughter of Anders Gustaf von Düben, one of the last two Swedes to be sentenced to

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Missionary work

Walberg was elected by '' Svenska kyrkans mission'' in January 1890, serving the

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, after she had left her role as private tutor for the children of the Witts family. Walberg arrived in Ekutuleni in October 1892 to work at the Missionary Center in Ekutuleni,

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, and to assist missionary Fristedt, in his work with education and the orphanage's activities. In addition to her work as a missionary, she also collected several

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objects. Which she later donated to the

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. Walberg married Erik Gustaf Walberg (1859–1915) in 1897, a priest and missionary at the Oskarsberg Missionary Center in Ekutuleni.

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Ingeborg Ingeborg is a Germanic feminine given name, mostly used in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, derived from Old Norse ''Ingiborg, Ingibjǫrg'', combining the theonym ''Ing'' with the element ''borg'' "stronghold, protection". Ingebjørg is the No ...

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