Beata Sofia Gyldén born ''Wrede af Elimä'' (5 December 1804

Anjala Anjala was a town in Southern Finland, which merged in 1975 with Sippola to form Anjalankoski, later further merged into Kouvola Kouvola () is a city in Finland and the administrative capital of Kymenlaakso. It is located in the southeastern int ...

– 5 June 1864

Jena Jena (; ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 in ...

) was a Finnish poet who wrote in

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

History

Gyldén's parents were a free lord, lieutenant colonel Gustaf Wrede af Elimä and Fredrika Lovisa Georg-Fredrikintytär Tigerstedt. In 1837, she married Nils Abraham Gyldén, who in 1847 became a professor of Greek literature at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

. Their son Johan August

Hugo Gyldén Johan August Hugo Gyldén (May 29, 1841 in Helsinki – November 9, 1896 in Stockholm) was a Finland-Swedish astronomer primarily known for work in celestial mechanics. Gyldén was the son of Nils Abraham Gyldén, Professor of Classical phil ...

(1841–1896) was an astronomer at the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences () is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for promoting nat ...

and director of the Stockholm Observatory. Gyldén published her poems in the ''Insjövågen'' album published in 1853, where the authors appeared under the common name Fruntimmer. Other authors of the album were at least Sara Karolina Gadolin from Oulu (born Ekman, 1800–1875) and Lucina Constantia Ingeborg Wallenius (1832–1913). The album received a bad reception in the columns of Helsinki newspapers, and the authors were even accused of a lack of self-criticism.

References

1804 births 1864 deaths Poets from the Russian Empire 19th-century Finnish writers 19th-century Finnish women writers Finnish poets Finnish poets in Swedish {{Finland-writer-stub