Anna von Zweigbergk, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Anna von Zweigbergk

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1865

Date of Death: 03-May-1952

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Anna von Zweigbergk

  • Anna Maria von Zweigbergk (née Christenson, 16 February 1865 – 3 May 1952) was a Swedish journalist and author.
  • She was a reporter of Aftonbladet in 1888–1894, at the paper SmÃ¥land in 1894–1896, and at Dagens Nyheter in 1896–1898.
  • She was the daughter of the landowner A.
  • J.
  • Christenson och Elna Persson.
  • She married the reporter Otto von Zweigbergk in 1891.
  • She was a friend of the writers Victoria Benedictsson and Axel LundegÃ¥rd, and their correspondence is preserved.
  • She is known as a pioneer: she belonged to the pioneer generation of women reporters in Sweden, and was the first Swedish woman reporter to have published a modern form of interview (of Oscar Montelius) in 1890.
  • She continued to work after marriage, which was also unusual for a woman in this time period.
  • She ended her career because her spouse became the Editor-in-chief of the paper where they were both employed, and the staff protested against the nepotism of having the wife of their boss employed at his own paper.
  • The writer and journalist Valfrid SpÃ¥ngberg described her as "a skilful journalist, one of the first female ones in the Stockholm press, in her area the very first".

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