Mankell Family History
Other Children and Descendants of Johan Herman Mankell
Other web pages describe the lives of Gustav, Carl Abraham and his son Julius, Wilhelm and his sons Otto August and Herman Wilhelm. This page includes information about the other children of Johan Herman Mankell and some of their descendants.
Children of Johan and Johanna (Keyser) Mankell:
LOUISE AMALIA MANKELL (1806-1806), FRIEDRICH FERDINAND MANKELL (1807-1807) and GEORG ANDREAS MANKELL (1809-?)
Louise and Friedrich both died in infancy; Louise survived for 3 days; Friedrich died at birth.
The only information we have about Georg (George) is that he was unmarried and survived his mother Johanna who died in 1839.
FRIEDERICA AMALIA MANKELL (1814-1889)
Born on April 8, 1814 in Christiansfeld, Friederica (Fredrika) married musician Wilhelm Theodor Gnosspelius in 1853. They lived in Linköping Sweden (see maps) where Wilhelm worked as an organist. Friederica died in Lund Sweden in 1889. Their daughter Amanda Planck was active in the musical life of Linköping in the 1880s where she directed several choirs and was well regarded as a singer. Amanda also organized orchestra concerts in Linköping.
Children of Johan and Helena (Svedman) Mankell:
JOHAN AUGUST MANKELL (1825-1868) Johan August was born on June 14 1825 in Karlskrona Sweden. (see maps) He was the oldest child of Helena and Johan Herman. He worked as a music director in Eksjö and Skara Sweden. Johan married Hilda Oterdahl in 1836 and they had 4 children. Helena (1863-1941) and Ida (1864-1940) both worked at a school for the blind and deaf in Vänersborg Sweden. It appears that neither daughter married. Gustaf (1866-1928) was a businessman who married Alma Petersson and died in Gothenburg. Youngest child August (1868-1939) was an artist, dentist, and singer. August left his inheritance to his two sisters who donated this fortune to charity in Skara. As of 1996, this foundation was worth about 1.6 million Swedish crowns.
Johan August Mankell, c1860.
VIKTOR ALFRED MANKELL (1827-1831) and HERMAN LUDVIG FERDINAND MANKELL (1829-1836)
Both sons were born in Karlskrona and died in their childhood.
SVEN GUSTAF GEORG JULIUS MANKELL (1832-1886)
Sven was born in Karlskrona and died in Härnösand Sweden (see maps) and was the head of the county constabulary in Undrom Boteå in the northern part of Sweden. He married Hilda Liden in 1868. Sven and Hilda had 5 children: Berta, Helga, Bernhard, Hilda, and Carl. The youngest, Carl, died when he was three.
Their fourth child, Hilda, was born in 1877. She studied music (piano and voice) at the Academy of Music in Stockholm and in Berlin. She worked as a singer and actress. In 1902 she performed the roll of “Lizzie” in the operetta Solstrålen (The Sunbeam) on stage throughout Sweden, including Stockholm and Gothenburg. Hilda also performed concerts in churches and concert halls, singing works of the masters, including W. A. Mozart, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Hilda married a Naval Officer, Emil Lindbergh in 1905. They had two children, Ingegard (b. 1907) and Bo (b. 1909), a businessman in Stockholm.
Hilda Mankell Lindbergh, as "Lizzie" in a 1902 production.
EMIL THEODOR MANKELL (1834-1899)
The youngest child of Johan and Helena, Emil was born in Karlskrona and was only one year old when his father died in 1835. Emil was a teacher of drawing and gymnastics in Härnösand.(see maps) He married twice, first to Amalia Häggström in 1863 and to Sara Svartengren in 1879. Like has father and many siblings, Emil was a musician. He was a violinist who played in a symphony orchestra and was involved in the Harnosand Music Society.
Emil and Amalia had three children: Gustaf, Emil and Ivar Henning. Gustaf was born in Härnösand. He left Sweden for the US in 1889 and lived in Buffalo, New York, where he was an artist and musician (he played the cello). He married Natalia Kavaleff from Finland who was a gymnast and taught at the University of Buffalo. They had no children. Second child Emil Gunnar taught drawing at the high school in Härnösand. He never married. Emil Theodore and his second wife Sara had one daughter, Anna, a teacher in languages.
Emil Theodore Mankell's drawing of CM Torin.
IVAR HENNING MANKELL (1868-1930)
Son of Emil and Amalia, Ivar Henning (known as Henning) was a well-known pianist, music teacher, music critic and composer and a member of the Royal Academy of Music. Ivar Henning was a music student at the Stockholm Music Conservatory. He studied music with Hilda Thegerström and studied piano with Lennart Lundberg. He was a music critic for the Svenske Morgonbladet and the Stockholms-Tidningen. In the late 1880s Ivar Henning and his two brothers, Emil and Gustaf, formed a piano trio. In addition to performing and teaching piano, Ivar Henning was was an amateur violinist, a poet, and a writer, and artist. In 1893 he wrote a short story “A Life” which is about the struggles of an artist. He drew sketches and painted from his travels in Sweden and Europe.
Ivar Henning was best known as a composer for solo piano, chamber orchestra, instrumental, and vocal music. His style was thought to be independent and advanced for its time. His music is described as poetic, impressionistic, and full of fantasy, influenced by Debussy, Grieg, and Liszt His work focused on technical and stylistic aspects rather than the more popular romantic style. In 1917 he was elected into the Swedish Royal Academy of Music. The Svenska Biografiskt Lexikon describes Henning as a “lonely, shy person who avoided society, being more comfortable alone with his piano or in nature.”
In 1905 Ivar Henning married Agnes Karolina Lindblom and had three children. One of Ivar's grandsons, Henning Georg Mankell (1948-) is a world famous author.