Julia Nyberg

Kristina Julia Nyberg, originally Christina Juliana Sverdström (* November 17, 1785 in Västmanland, † April 16, 1854 in Västmanland ), was a Swedish author. The majority of her works, she published under the pseudonym Euphrosyne, inspired by the three goddesses of grace in Greek mythology.

Nyberg is known for its natural descriptive songs like Varvindar friska that echoes every spring again by Sweden.

Biography

Her father was the manager of the Skultuna brass work. Since her parents died early, she was raised by the business owner. 1809 she married J. H. Asping, but the marriage was short-lived. Her second marriage she entered into with A. W. Nyberg, the new managing director of the factory.

Influences

From the well-known writer Atterbom Nyberg received not only her pseudonym Euphrosyne, but she found in him a benefactor and literary mentor, who was both her ​​personal life as well as for working with litararische advice. She succeeded only gradually to free himself from his strong influence. Instead of him, she approached the Stockholm Romantics, and the art historian Lorenzo Hammarsköld was her literary adviser.

Works

Nyberg wrote mostly idylls and was also considered a pioneer in the field of philanthropic ballads, which was a popular genre in the early 1800s. The majority of her works, she published under the pseudonym Euphrosyne.

• Some poems published in the Journal Opoetisk calendar för poetiskt folk (1817 )
• Dikter af Euphrosyne Upsala, Palmblad & c. , Volume 1 (1822 )
• Vublina, dramatiskt poem af Euphrosyne (1828 )
• Samlade dikter (1831/1832)
• Together with Carl Fredrik Dahlgren, she published the journal Sylphid (1839 )
• Nya dikter Publisher: L. J. Hjerta (1842 )