Maria Dorothea Dunckel née Altén (13 March 1799 – 30 November 1878), was a Swedish poet, translator and playwright.
Dunckel was born to the secretary Martin Altén and Kristina Dorotea Landwertz.[1]
She wrote her first theatre play-manuscript at the age of nine (1808), and after this, assisted her father with translations.[2]
Married in 1821 to the David Vilhelm Dunckel, vicar at the German parish of Stockholm, and from 1823, vicar at the German parish in Gothenburg.[3]
Work
edit- Receptet (translation, 1813)
- Förlofningen (play, 1817)
- Förstlingar (1824)
- Dramatiska och lyriska försök (poems, 4 parts 1828–1832)
Marie, en liten gåfva i bref till mina unga landsmaninnor (1830)
- Vilhelms brefväxling med sina vänner (1835)
- Pensionsvännerna (1842)
- Två systrar i Östergötland (1844)
- Gammalt och nytt ur min portfölj (1865)