Author · Denmark
Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd
Died in 1856
Thomasine Buntzen was born in Copenhagen in 1773, the daughter of a sworn broker and average adjuster. At sixteen she married her language teacher, the writer Peter Andreas Heiberg, by whom she had a son, Johan Ludvig. When her husband was banished in 1800 for his writings, she obtained a divorce and in 1801 married an exiled Swedish baron, Carl Frederik Gyllembourg; widowed in 1815, then a governess to the children of a cousin, she followed her son to Kiel in 1822 and afterwards lived with him; it was he who got her to write, at the age of fifty-three. She died in Copenhagen in 1856; her portrait adorns the thousand-krone note issued in 1975.
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- NovelAn Everyday StoryEn Hverdags-HistorieThomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd · 1828LiteraturePublic domain