Caroline Rosenberg was born 24 September 1810, in Holsten in 1810, the daughter of a landscape artist.
[2] She and her two sisters lost their mother when Caroline was 11, so their father hired a governess who remained with the family until 1830.
[1] The governess then found employment in the home of the agricultural economist and botanist Niels Hofman Bang at Hofmansgave, Denmark.
After Caroline's father's death in 1833, she went to Odense, near Hofmansgave, as a live-in tutor for one of Hofman Bang's cousins.
[3] She was highly respected and in 1866, she was named an honorary member of the Danish Botanical Association.