# Betty Ehrenborg > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Betty_Ehrenborg > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Betty_Ehrenborg.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Ehrenborg > Source revision: 1285202784 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Swedish writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL|suppressfields=children family}} '''Betty Ehrenborg''', married name '''Posse af Säby''' (22 July 1818 – 22 July 1880), was a [Swedish](/source/Swedes) writer, psalm writer and [pedagogue](/source/Pedagogy). She is regarded as the founder of the Swedish [Sunday school](/source/Sunday_school). ==Life== Katarina Elisabeth Ehrenborg was the daughter of the noble [Parliamentary Ombudsman](/source/Parliamentary_Ombudsman) [Casper Ehrenborg](/source/Casper_Ehrenborg) and the writer [Anna Fredrica Carlqvist](/source/Fredrica_Ehrenborg). She was raised at the family estate Råbäck at [Kinnekulle](/source/Kinnekulle). Her sister Maria Ulrika (Ulla) Ehrenborg was the wife of Bishop [Ebbe Gustaf Bring](/source/Ebbe_Gustaf_Bring).{{Cite web |last=Rodhe |first=B. |title=Ebbe Gustaf Bring |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=16955 |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=[Svenskt biografiskt lexikon](/source/Svenskt_biografiskt_lexikon) |language=sv}} In 1842, she and her mother moved to Uppsala to be near her brother, [Richard](/source/Richard_Ehrenborg_(politician)), who studied at [Uppsala University](/source/Uppsala_University). 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](/source/Gustaf_Palmquist) and [Per Palmqvist](/source/Per_Palmqvist) in 1851.{{Cite web |title=Svenska män och kvinnor |url=https://runeberg.org/smok/6/0183.html |access-date=2022-04-11 |website=runeberg.org |page=161 |language=sv}} Ehrenborg traveled to England around that time, possibly with the brothers, and learned about the Sunday school programs there.{{Cite book |last=McFarland |first=John Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/02521824.1527.emory.edu/page/n283/mode/2up?q=palmqvist |title=The encyclopedia of Sunday schools and religious education; giving a world-wide view of the history and progress of the Sunday school and the development of religious education |last2=Winchester |first2=Benjamin S. |publisher=T. Nelson & sons |year=1915 |pages=1061 |quote="About 1850, Mr. Per Palmqvist and Miss Betty Ehrenborg visited England and upon their return to Stockholm they organized Sunday schools according to the English form. From this small beginning Sunday-school work has grown in magnitude..."}} While in England she stayed with [Mathilda Foy](/source/Mathilda_Foy), who introduced her to [Carl Olof Rosenius](/source/Carl_Olof_Rosenius)' teachings.{{Cite periodical |last=Norström |first=Per |date=1930-11-01 |title=Söndagsskolans historia |url=https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/aikakausi/binding/979220 |magazine=Evangeliskt vittnesbörd |language=sv |issue=21 |page=163 |access-date=2022-05-01}} In 1852–1853, she studied at the [British and Foreign school](/source/British_and_Foreign_school) in London. She remained in contact with the Palmqvist brothers and they encouraged her to publish "{{Lang|sv|Andeliga sånger för barn och ungdom. Med melodier|italic=no}}". After returning to Sweden, she established a Sunday school in 1854 with 13 mostly [free-church](/source/Free_church) and [Baptist](/source/Baptists) students. She founded and managed a Sunday school on her brother's estate in 1855–1856. Her Sunday school moved to [Bethlehem Church](/source/Bethlehem_Church_(Stockholm)) in 1873. In 1854, she co-founded the [Fruntimmersällskapet för fångars förbättring](/source/Fruntimmers%C3%A4llskapet_f%C3%B6r_f%C3%A5ngars_f%C3%B6rb%C3%A4ttring) in Stockholm with Foy, writer [Fredrika Bremer](/source/Fredrika_Bremer), deaconess [Maria Cederschiöld](/source/Maria_Cederschi%C3%B6ld_(deaconess)), and [Emilia Elmblad](/source/Emilia_Elmblad), founder of the Stockholm home for reformed prostitutes.Elisabeth Christiansson: ”Först och framför allt själen” Diakonins tankevärld omkring år 1850. Sköndalsinstitutet 2003 In 1863, she married Baron Johan August Posse. She died in Södertälje in 1880.{{Cite web |title=Catharina Elisabet (Betty) Ehrenborg-Posse |url=http://skbl.se/en/article/BettyEhrenborgPosse |access-date=2022-04-11 |website=[Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon](/source/Svenskt_kvinnobiografiskt_lexikon) |language=sv}} ==Works== *"[Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star](/source/Twinkle%2C_Twinkle%2C_Little_Star)" (Swedish-language lyrics, "Blinka lilla stjärna") *"[Visan om solen, månen och planeterna](/source/Visan_om_solen%2C_m%C3%A5nen_och_planeterna)" ("The song about the sun, moon and planets") *"[Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus](/source/Wir_hatten_gebauet_ein_stattliches_Haus)" (Swedish-language lyrics: "[När juldagsmorgon glimmar](/source/N%C3%A4r_juldagsmorgon_glimmar)") ==References== {{Reflist}} == Sources == *[https://archive.today/20130629191313/http://www.nad.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=7371 K Elisabet (Betty) Posse, urn:sbl:7371, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (article by Oloph Bexell), retrieved 2015-09-04.] == Further reading == * {{SKBL}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ehrenborg, Betty}} Category:1818 births Category:1880 deaths Category:19th-century Swedish women writers Category:19th-century Swedish writers Category:19th-century Swedish nobility Category:Swedish governesses Category:People from Götene Municipality --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Betty Ehrenborg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Ehrenborg) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Ehrenborg?action=history)). 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