Betty Ehrenborg, married name Posse af Säby (22 July 1818 – 22 July 1880), was a

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writer, psalm writer and

pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

. She is regarded as the founder of the Swedish

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Life

Katarina Elisabeth (

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Betty) Ehrenborg was the daughter of the noble

Parliamentary Ombudsman Parliamentary Ombudsman ( fi, Eduskunnan oikeusasiamies, sv, Riksdagens ombudsman, is, Umboðsmaður Alþingis, da, Folketingets Ombudsmand, no, Sivilombudet) is the name of the principal ombudsman institutions in Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Norw ...

Casper Ehrenborg and the writer Anna Fredrica Carlqvist. She was raised at the family estate Råbäck at

Kinnekulle Kinnekulle is a flat-topped mountain in the county of Västergötland, Sweden, on the eastern shore of lake Vänern. Its highest point is above sea level. The mountain is long and wide at the top. Geology Despite its enormous size, Kinnekul ...

. Her sister Maria Ulrika (Ulla) Ehrenborg was the wife of Bishop

Ebbe Gustaf Bring Ebbe Gustaf Bring (4 July 1814 – 13 August 1884) was a Swedish bishop in the Church of Sweden and theologian. Biography Bring was born in Askersund, Örebro County in 1814, to city physician and assessor Sven Håkan Bring and Ulrika (Ulla) Sof ...

. In 1842, she and her mother moved to Uppsala to be near her brother,

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, who studied at

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. In Uppsala, she attended several of the university lectures, though she was merely a member of the civil audience and not a student, and she became a part of the Uppsala intellectual life of the 1840s. She worked as a governess in 1846–1848. She got to know Swedish Baptist pioneer brothers

Gustaf Palmquist Gustaf Palmquist, also Palmqvist, (26 May 1812 – 18 September 1867) was a pioneer Swedish Baptist pastor and missionary in Sweden and the United States. He was one of three brothers, including Johannes and Per Palmqvist who were active early i ...

and

Per Palmqvist Per Palmqvist, also Palmquist, (8 April 1815 – 10 August 1887) was a Swedish Baptist pioneer and organist. He is regarded as one of the founders of Sunday school in Sweden. Palmqvist, along with his two brothers Johannes and Gustaf Palmquist, ...

in 1851. Ehrenborg traveled to England around that time, possibly with the brothers, and learned about the Sunday school programs there. While in England she stayed with

Mathilda Foy Mathilda (or ''Mathilde'') Foy (or ''Foj''), also known as ''Tante Esther'', (10 November 1813 – 1 November 1869), was a Swedish philanthropist and writer, known for her charitable work. She is known as a pioneer of the Sunday school, and as ...

, who introduced her to

Carl Olof Rosenius Carl Olof Rosenius (February 3, 1816 – February 24, 1868) was a Swedish lay preacher, author and editor of the monthly ''Pietisten'' (The Pietist) from 1842 to 1868.''Twice-Born Hymns'' by J. Irving Erickson, (Chicago: Covenant Press, 1976) ...

' teachings. In 1852–1853, she studied at the British and Foreign school in London. She remained in contact with the Palmqvist brothers and they encouraged her to publish "". After returning to Sweden, she established a Sunday school in 1854 with 13 mostly free-church and

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students. She founded and managed a Sunday school on her brother's estate in 1855–1856. Her Sunday school moved to Bethlehem Church in 1873. In 1854, she co-founded the

Fruntimmersällskapet för fångars förbättring Fruntimmersällskapet för fångars förbättring ('Women's Society for the Reform of Prisoners') was a charitable society founded in Stockholm in Sweden in 1854. The purpose of the society was to visit female prisoners and work for their rehabilita ...

in Stockholm with Foy, writer

Fredrika Bremer Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finnish-born Swedish writer and feminist reformer. Her ''Sketches of Everyday Life'' were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and she is re ...

, deaconess

Maria Cederschiöld Hedvig ''Maria'' Reddita Cederschiöld (29 June 1856, Stockholm – 19 October 1935, Stockholm), was a Swedish journalist and women's rights activist. She was the chief editor of the foreign office at ''Aftonbladet'' in 1909–1921, and the first ...

, and

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, founder of the Stockholm home for reformed prostitutes. In 1863, she married Baron Johan August Posse. She died in Södertälje in 1880.

Works

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is a popular English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor, "The Star". The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in '' Rhymes for the Nurser ...

" (Swedish-language lyrics, "Blinka lilla stjärna") *"

Visan om solen, månen och planeterna Visan om solen, månen och planeterna is a poem written by Betty Ehrenborg-Posse, published in 1868 in '' Folkskolans läsebok''. As a song it is, just like the Anthem of Europe, sung to the same tune as Beethoven's 9th symphony. The lyrics teach ...

" ("The song about the sun, moon and planets") *"

Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus "Ich hab mich ergeben" (, ), originally titled "Gelübde" ("Vow"), is a German patriotic song. The text was written in 1820 by Hans Ferdinand Maßmann. It was one of the unofficial national anthems of West Germany from 1949 to 1952, when the "Deu ...

" (Swedish-language lyrics: " När juldagsmorgon glimmar")

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K Elisabet (Betty) Posse, urn:sbl:7371, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (article by Oloph Bexell), retrieved 2015-09-04.

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