{{short description|Swedish opera singer}}
{{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Bertha Tammelin | image = Bertha Bock, porträtt - SMV - H8 111.tif | birth_name = Bertha Carolina Mathilda Tammelin | birth_date = {{Birth date|1836|03|21|df=y}} | origin = Sweden | death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|01|02|1836|03|21|df=y}} | genre = | occupation = | instrument = Piano }} '''Bertha Carolina Mathilda Tammelin''' ({{née|'''Bock'''}}; 21 March 1836 – 2 January 1915<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.svenskagravar.se/gravsatt/b81ee749-c44b-4b77-a349-c199b09e212a|title=Tammelin, Berta Matilda|website=Svenskagravar|access-date=30 March 2025}}</ref>) was a Swedish actress, operatic [[mezzo-soprano]], pianist, composer and drama teacher. Her mother was actress [[Karolina Bock]]. Tammelin taught at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, where two of her notable students were [[Ellen Hartman]] and [[Ebba Lindkvist]].
==Life== Bertha Tammelin was born in Stockholm, the daughter of actress [[Karolina Bock]] and a musician of ''[[Kungliga Hovkapellet]]'', C. Bock. She was educated at the [[Royal Dramatic Training Academy]] 1853–1855 and hired at the [[Royal Swedish Opera]] and at the [[Royal Dramatic Theatre]] as a premier actress in 1856. She performed both operatic parts and dramatic parts. As an actress, her most noted part was Ingrid in ''[[Bröllopet på Ulvåsa]]'' by [[Frans Hedberg]], and as a singer, Puck in ''[[Oberon]]''.<ref name=":0" />
Tammelin was also a musician. She studied piano with [[Jacopo Foroni]], and held piano concerts at the age of fourteen. She was also active as a composer. Several of her works was a part of the collection ''Det sjungande Europa'' ('The Singing Europe'). From 1879, she was a music teacher at the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Music]], and in 1889, she was made teacher of drama at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy. She also had private students. Among her famous students were [[Ellen Hartman]] and [[Ebba Lindkvist]].<ref name=":1" />
Tammelin experienced weak eyesight her entire life, and eventually, it worsened: she retired because of this condition, making her final appearance on stage on 7 March 1884.<ref name=":0" />
She married accountant Filip Tammelin in 1873. She was given the [[Litteris et Artibus]] in 1885.<ref name=":1">{{cite book|last=Österberg |first=Carin |title=Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare|place= Lund|publisher=Signum |year=1990|ISBN=91-87896-03-6}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Ahnfelt |first=Arvid |title=Tammelin, Bertha Carolina |url=https://runeberg.org/eurkonst/0584.html |website=Europas konstnärer}}</ref>
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