Margaretha Heijkensköld

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Margaretha Charlotta Heijkensköld, (1781-1834), was a Swedish traveller who aroused a lot of attention from her contemporaries by her journeys.

Margaretha Charlotta Heijkensköld was the daughter of a councillor, Detlof Heijkensköld, and inherited a fortune, which she used to finance her interest in foreign travel. She was described as an independent person with a great ability to adapt. She never married, and the fact that she travelled, and travelled alone, in a period when women seldom did the first and never the second, drew a lot of attention. She visited Paris, Vienna and Italy and the Middle East. She died in Romla in Syria after a visit in Jerusalem.

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