Viveka Adelswärd

Karin Hedvig Viveka Adelswärd, née Lindegren (b. March 17, 1942, Oscar's parish in Stockholm), is a Swedish baroness, linguist and professor emerita in conversation analysis. Upon her retirement, she worked at the Department of Theme Communication at Linköping University. Adelswärd wrote Svenska Dagbladet's column Språkspalten in 1995–2011

Biography Adelswärd received her doctorate in 1988. In 1999, she became full professor.

In 2005, Viveka Adelswärd received the Swedish Academy's language conservation prize – among other things.

Viveka Adelswärd is the widow of the court huntsman (Hovjägmästare), Baron , whom she met when she was 19 and married two years later, She was, together with her husband, listed as one of the 100 richest persons in Sweden in 1996.