Career
Born in Christiania, she held a "prominent spot in the social life of the capital city", according to one encyclopedia. She was also involved in the Dramatic Society. Her memoirs Gamle Dage: Erindringer og Tidsbilleder were published posthumously in 1871, and are seen as valuable sources on the 19th century cultural life.
lieutenant has been re-published several times, and Conradine Birgitte Dunker was also biographed in 1996.
She was the mother of Bernhard Dunker and Vilhelmine Ullmann. Her younger brother was astronomer Christopher Hansteen.
As such she was the aunt of feminist and painter Aasta Hansteen.