CHRISTINE, BARONESS (1773-1856), Danish author, was born on Nov. 9, 1773, at Copenhagen. Her maiden name was Buntzen. Before she was 17 she married the famous writer P. A. Heiberg. Their son was afterwards illustrious as the poet and critic J. L. Heiberg. In 1 Soo her husband was exiled, and she obtained a divorce, marrying in Dec. 18o1 the Swedish Baron K. F. Ehrens yard, himself a political fugitive. Her second husband, who presently adopted the name of Gyllembourg, died in 1815. In 1822 she followed her son to Kiel, where he was professor, re turning with him to Copenhagen in 1825. Her most famous work is En Hverdags historie (An Everyday Story). On July 2, 1856, she died in her son's house at Copenhagen. For English readers no closer analogy can be found than between her and Mrs. Gaskell, and Cranford might well have been written by the witty Danish authoress.
See J. L. Heiberg, Peter Andreas Heiberg og Thomasine Gyllembourg (1882), and L. Kornelius-Hybel, Nogle Bemaerkninger om P. A. Heiberg og Fru Gyllembourg (1883).