Henriette Wulfsberg

Henriette Wulfsberg (6 June 1843 – 9 October 1906) was a Norwegian educator, writer and translator.

Early and personal life Wulfsberg was born on 6 June 1843 in Drammen to Mantzine Margrethe Seeberg (1812–1883) and printer and newspaper publisher Jacob Wulfsberg (1809–1882), son of Morgenbladet'''s founder Niels Wulfsberg. She never married.

Career At the age of 12 or 14, she had already started to write small notices in her father's newspaper, Jacob Wulfsberg's newspaper Drammens Tidende and later wrote several articles for the paper.

After completing her education at Ms. Houbens school in Drammen, she spent a year as a governess to a Dr. Wolf in Hadeland. With savings from this job, she travelled to London, where she acted as a London correspondent for Aftenbladet, writing about everyday life in the city. When she returned to Norway in 1866, she took the governess exam at Hartvig Nissen School. She made 16 trips abroad in total to England, France, Belgium, Italy, Denmark and Sweden. Several of the trips were purely study trips, but she was also invited on multiple occasions to give lectures. trips, but she was invited on several occasions to give lectures.

In 1868, she became a teacher at Miss S. Bauer's school in Christiania and was for a short period an inspector at Bøckman's Girls' School. In 1878, she took over Ms. Bauer's school in Drammen and had a new school building built. She participated on the Act on Higher Public Schools of 1896, representing girls' school alongside Ragna Nielsen and Bernhard Pauss.

In 1896, Wulfsberg retired from the school in Drammen due to ill health. Four years later, the book Om den nye Ordning af Middelskoleexamen for Piger og Huslig Økonomi som Undervisningsfag was published, containing two of Wulfsberg's lectures. In 1884, she wrote and illustrated the book Skolehistorier with her own pen drawings using the pseudonym Claus. From 1894, she was employed by the magazine Husmoderen'' as well as contributing to various other magazines and newspapers.

Later life Wulfsberg died on 9 October 1906 in Oslo, after a long illness, at the age of 63. She was buried at Bragernes Cemetery