Anna Maria Lenngren
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Anna Maria Lenngren (born June 18, 1754 in Uppsala as Anna Maria Malmstedt , † March 8, 1817 in Stockholm ) is one of the most important writers of Swedish literature at the end of the 18th century, during the Enlightenment.
Life
Anna Maria Lenngren was the daughter of the university teacher Magnus B. Malmstedt and through her father received a classical education that was unusual for girls of the time. She started writing and translating early. Her breakthrough came in 1775 with the satirical poem The-Conseillen and a year later she was accepted into the literary society Utile Dulci , which brought together the intellectual elite of the time. In the next few years she mainly devoted herself to translating plays and operas. At the request of Duke Karl , she translated the comic opera Lucile in 1776 as the first Swedish-language opera for the Stockholm Opera House.
In 1780 she married Carl Petter Lenngren, a civil servant and employee of the then leading newspaper Stockholm's Posten , which he took over in 1795 after the death of Johan Henrik Kellgren . Anna Maria Lenngren became one of the most important literary collaborators, but published her contributions anonymously. She also ran a salon , which became one of the most important meeting places for the Swedish scouts.
Anna Maria Lenngren, a passionate follower of the Enlightenment, despised idealistic literature and devoted herself more and more to satire and the epigram . Freedom, equality and fraternity are her social ideals, which she thematized in Pojkarne (the boys) in 1796. In her poetry she also attacks the nobility and the upper classes. But also the male double standard as well as the inequality of the sexes is discussed, like z. E.g. in Rosalie 1794 or in Några ord till min kära dotter - ifall jag hade någon (“A few words to my dear daughter - if I had one”) 1798.
Anna Maria Lenngren also turned against the emerging romanticism , whose dizziness she preferred the courage of the Enlightenment, as she wrote herself in 1809, and which she attacked in 1814 in the poem Kråkan ("The Crow").
Although she was not a member of the Svenska Academies , she attended many of its meetings and was de facto considered a member. The academy honored her in 1797 with the Ode till fru Lenngren and after her death with a commemorative coin. She was one of the first women to become a member of the Royal Science and Literature Society in Gothenburg in 1775 .
literature
- Lenngren, Anna Maria . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 37 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Anna Maria Lenngren . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 16 : Lee – Luvua . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1912, Sp. 162-163 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
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| SURNAME | Lenngren, Anna Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malmstedt, Anna Maria (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uppsala |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1817 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |