Kamma Rahbek

Karen Margrethe "Kamma" Rahbek (née Heger ; born October 19, 1775 in Copenhagen ; † January 21, 1829 in Copenhagen) was a Danish salonnière and author of extensive correspondence with personalities from Danish cultural history.

Rahbek was the daughter of the court assessor Hans Heger . She had several siblings, including the librarian Carl Heger and the actor and writer Stephan Heger . She owes her name "Kamma" to her younger sister Christiane, whom she called that as a small child. At an early stage, she showed versatile interests and talent. When she was ten she spoke English and took drawing lessons from young Bertel Thorvaldsen . The general superintendent and orientalist Jacob Georg Christian Adler laid the foundation for their religiosity, and later Bishop Jakob Peter Mynster had great influence on them in this regard.

In 1798 she married the writer Knud Lyne Rahbek . They bought the Bakkehuset in the Copenhagen suburb of Frederiksberg , which is now a museum, and organized regular evening parties there, at which Adam Oehlenschläger (the husband of her sister Christiane), Jens Baggesen , Sophie Ørsted , Poul Martin Møller , Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig , Bernhard, among others Severin Ingemann , Hans Christian Andersen and Peter Oluf Brøndsted took part. Between 1802 and 1804 she took in Johan Ludvig Heiberg , then ten , whose parents were divorced.

During the English invasion in 1807, the Bakkehuset had to leave temporarily. The years from 1813 were marked before their friendship with Christian Molbech and Erich Christian Werlauff , the correspondence with the latter comprises more than 300 letters. From 1815 Adolph Engelbert Boye was her most important correspondent. From 1823–24 Poul Martin Møller was a guest at Bakkehuset, whom Kamma described as "the dearest and most distinguished of her sons".

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