Juliane Marie Jessen

Juliane Marie Jessen (11 February 1760 – 6 October 1832) was an early Danish female author and translator who became known in 1819 by winning first prize for the words she wrote for a national anthem for Denmark, with her Dannemark!

[1] She also published other works including poetry and, in 1815, the play Ei blot til Lyst.

Beginning in 1787, she spent three years as a reader for Queen Juliana Maria until ill health intervened.

Her most notable literary works are the play Ei blot til Lyst (1815) and the anthology Smaae Mark-Violer plantede i Danmarks Digterhauge (1819).

At her death in 1832 in Copenhagen, she was hailed as a noble, affectionate woman with "a powerful soul and cheerfully bright disposition".