Marja-Liisa Swantz

Hedvig Posse (8 August 1861 – 22 December 1927) was a Swedish missionary in South Africa, linguist and hymn writer. She was one of the "most prominent translators and recorders of Zulu music and oral history", who translated a number of stories, fairy tales and poetry from Zulu to Swedish. She also translated Swedish hymns into Zulu, with the "aim of replacing traditional songs with Christian texts".