Onkel Adam

Born in Jönköping on June 6, 1804, Carl Anton Wetterbergh later became known by the pseudonym Onkel Adam. He trained as a physician, and that medical career took him to several parts of Sweden before his writing career truly took off.

During the 1840s and after, he built a reputation as a novelist and storyteller whose books were especially popular in the middle of the nineteenth century. He is remembered not only as a writer but also as someone with a strong social interest, and from 1862 he also published the children's magazine Linnéa.

Wetterbergh died in Linköping on January 31, 1889. Today he is remembered as one of the recognizable Swedish literary voices of his time: a writer who brought a readable, humane touch to fiction while also living a full professional life outside literature.