Ingeborg Walberg

Ingeborg Walberg
Ingeborg Walberg
Born	Karolina Ingeborg Emerentia von Düben 12 December 1862 Överselö, Södermanland County, Sweden
Died	17 March 1943 (1943-03-18) (aged 80) Gränna, Jönköping County, Sweden
Occupation	Missionary
Parent(s)	Cesar von Düben Augusta Lilliestråle

Ingeborg Walberg^[a] (née von Düben;^[b] 6 December 1862 – 17 March 1943) was a Swedish missionary to South Africa.

Early life

Ingeborg Walberg was born a baroness (Swedish: friherrinna) on Stora Lundby^[1] in 1862 in Överselö, Södermanland.^[2] Her father, Cesar von Düben,^[3] was a pioneering photographer and a member of the Düben family, renowned for its contributions to Swedish music history. Her mother, Augusta Lilliestråle,^[3] 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 exile.

Missionary work

Ingeborg Walberg, together with Hedvig Posse, among the missionary students in South Africa.

Walberg was elected by Svenska kyrkans mission in January 1890, serving the Church of Sweden,^[4] 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, Natal, and to assist missionary Fristedt, in his work with education and the orphanage's activities.^[5]

In addition to her work as a missionary, she also collected several ethnographical objects. Which she later donated to the Swedish Museum of Natural History.^[6]

Walberg married Erik Gustaf Walberg (1859–1915) in 1897, a priest and missionary at the Oskarsberg Missionary Center in Ekutuleni.^[7][3]

Footnotes

1. The name can also be spelled as Wahlberg.
2. Name prior to her marriage: Karolina Ingeborg Emerentia von Düben (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈfɔn dy:ʹbən]).

References

1. "Walberg, Carolina Ingeborg Emerantia (1862 - 1943) [sv] - KulturNav". kulturnav.org. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
2. "Överselö kyrkoarkiv, Födelse- och dopböcker, SE/ULA/11837/C/6 (1862–1875)". sok.riksarkivet.se. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
3. Leijonhufvud, Karl Axel Karlsson (1898). Svensk adelskalender (in Swedish). P.A. Norstedt & söner.
4. "Missionsrörelsen – en kvinnorörelse: Birgitta Larsson om Jonas Jonsons nya bok om missionärerna". bblat.se (in Swedish). 10 November 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
5. Sarja, Karin (2002). Ännu en syster till Sydafrika (PDF) (in Swedish). Uppsala: Swedish Institute of Mission Research at Uppsala University.
6. "1907.17 :: Walberg, I." collections.smvk.se. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
7. Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish). 1915. p. 541.