Fredrique Eleonore Baptiste

Fredrique Eleonore Baptiste (died 27 July 1827), was a Swedish stage actress and playwright active in Finland.

She was first married to the actor C. H. Smedberg and, after having divorced him, to the musician Johan Gustaf Lemke (1790-1825), who in 1824-25 managed the Åbo theatre house.

Baptiste made her stage debut as a member of the theatre company of Anton Olivier Hoflund in the role of Carolina in Den försonade fadern by Lindegren, in Norrköping on 1 December 1797.

She is noted to have performed in Åbo in 1809, and the following years, she was engaged at the theatre companies of Margareta Seuerling, Karl Gustav Bonuvier and Anders Peter Berggrén.

Her most successful plays was reportedly Hugo von Hochberg eller Den ädla uppoffringen ('Hugo von Hochberg or The Noble Sacrifice'), which had its premiere in Åbo in 1819, became very popular and frequently performed until the mid-19th century by travelling Swedish theatre companies in Sweden and Finland such as those of Karl Gustav Bonuvier, Anders Peter Berggrén, Josef August Lambert, Erasmus Petter Sjövall and Erik Wilhelm Djurström.