Anna Charlier

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Anna Charlier and Nils Strindberg .

Anna Albertina Konstantia Charlier (born July 25, 1871 in Åby , Gråmanstorp , Sweden , † 1949 ) was a Swedish concert pianist. She became famous as the fiancée of Nils Strindberg . He was a participant in the balloon expedition to the North Pole led by Salomon August Andrée in 1897. His shorthand diary was addressed to her.

Anna Charlier and Nils Strindberg got engaged in 1896, eight months before the expedition members left for Spitzbergen . The public did not hear about the expedition in the following years and Anna assumed that the participants would have had a fatal accident.

Anna Charlier trained as a concert pianist; among others with Richard Andersson . From 1902 she studied in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland.

In 1908 Anna Charlier married Gilbert Henry Conserray Hawtrey, an Englishman who lived in the USA. The one where they lived from August 1908. In 1930 the couple moved to Great Britain. Anna Charlie happened to be in Sweden in 1930 when remains of the expedition were discovered on the island of Kvitøya . She was unable to attend the funeral and only sent a funeral wreath.

After Anna Charler's death in 1949, according to her instructions, her heart was buried in a silver box next to Strindberg's urn.

Trivia

The Swedish astronomer Carl Charlier was her cousin.

Annabreen, a glacier on Amsterdamøya , is named after Anna Charlier.

Anna Charlier in film and literature

swell

  • Tyrone Martinsson: Nils Strindberg. A biography of the photographer on Andrées polar expedition . Historiska Media, Lund 2006, ISBN 91-85057-60-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. Annabreen . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).