Background
She was the daughter of the official Hans Heger (1747–1819) and Anne Louise Drewsen (1751–1799).
She was the daughter of the official Hans Heger (1747–1819) and Anne Louise Drewsen (1751–1799).
Her salon at Bakkehuset became a cultural centre and the gathering place for the writers of the Danish Golden age and was considered the salon of the middle class in contrast to the more aristocratic Friederike Brun and Charlotte Schimmelmann. Among her guests were Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Jens Baggesen, Sophie Ørsted, Poul Martin Møller, North. F. South. Grundtvig, B. South. Ingemann, H. C. Andersen, P. O. Brøndsted and Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Rahbek befriended the writers of the Romantic style, while her spouse preferred the moralists.
Her correspondence has been published.