Elsa Beata Bunge

Elsa Beata Bunge, née Wrede (18 April 1734 – 24 January 1819), was a Swedish botanist, writer and noble.

Biography Elsa Beata was born 18 April 1734. She was the daughter of statesman and noble, baron Fabian Wrede, and Katarina Charlotta Sparre. In 1761, she married the statesman Count Sven Bunge.

Bunge participated in the custom in the mid 18th-century of criticizing people by anonymous poems: she is believed to have been the author of the satirical libel work Kom kära Armod lät oss vandra (Come, dear Poverty, let us go) toward the notoriously stingy chamberlain Conrad Lohe.

Died Bunge died on Beateberga manor in Röö Parish in 1819.

Work Her pamphlets include; Bref till Eglé, om sättet att med minsta kostnad plantera vinrankor, i Sverige; samt befordra dem till ymnig bördighet, tidig och fullkomlig mognad (1803) Om vinrankors beskaffenhet efter sjelfva naturens anvisningar (1806)