Barbara Ekenberg
Swedish coffeehouse owner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elsa Barbro "Barbara" Ekenberg (1717–25 May 1799), was the owner and manager of a coffeehouse in Stockholm in 1772–99. She was a figure in the work of Carl Michael Bellman, who dedicated to her one of his Fredman's Epistles, No. 9 "Käraste Bröder Systrar och Vänner", with the dedication Till Gumman på Thermopolium Boreale och hennes jungfrur ('To the Old woman of the Thermopolium Boreale and her maidens').[1]