Ingeborg Walberg
Introduction
Ingeborg Walberg (née von Düben; 6 December 1862 – 17 March 1943) was a Swedish missionary to South Africa.
Early life
Ingeborg Walberg was born a baroness (Swedish: friherrinna) on Stora Lundby in 1862 in Överselö, Södermanland. Her father, Cesar von Düben, was a pioneering photographer and a member of the Düben family, renowned for its contributions to Swedish music history. Her mother, Augusta Lilliestråle, belonged to the Lilliestråle family and was also a writer.
Walberg was the granddaughter of Anders Gustaf von Düben, one of the last two Swedes to be sentenced to exile.
Missionary work
Walberg was elected by Svenska kyrkans mission in January 1890, serving the Church of Sweden, after she had left her role as private tutor for the children of the Witts family.
Walberg arrived in Ekutuleni in October 1892 to work at the Missionary Center in Ekutuleni, Natal, and to assist missionary Fristedt, in his work with education and the orphanage's activities.
In addition to her work as a missionary, she also collected several ethnographical objects. Which she later donated to the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Walberg married Erik Gustaf Walberg (1859–1915) in 1897, a priest and missionary at the Oskarsberg Missionary Center in Ekutuleni.