A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Akerhielm, Anna Mansdotter Agriconia
AKERHIELM, ANNA MANSDOTTER AGRICONIA,
A learned Swedish lady, was born March 18th., 1642. She was the daughter of the minister of Aker, in Sudermania; her father, Magnus Jonae Agriconius, being the author of a few unimportant works. By his death she was, at the age of sixteen, left an orphan with a brother three years her elder, and two sisters. Anna displayed great talents for literature, and under the guidance of her brother, became an excellent Latinist. She afterwards, unassisted, made herself mistress of several modern languages. Having, in 1671, been appointed 'hofjungfrau,' or lady in waiting, in the household of count Magnus Gabriel Delagardie, Chancellor of the kingdom, to whom her brother was secretary, she became acquainted with the count's daughter, and on the marriage of that lady with Field-Marshal count Königsmark, accompanied the bride as companion, and remained with her until death. She travelled to Venice, Greece, and the Morea, where the count commanded the Venetian forces, and kept a diary of her observations, portions of which were published. She died at firemen, in Germany, in 1698.