Dödens Engel (the Angle of Death) is a Swedish poem, written by Johan Olof Wallin in the time of Cholera in Sweden 1834, but revised until his death 1839. The poem was read in his memorial at the meeting of the Swedish Academy of Science in Dec 20, 1839, and after that it was printed for the first time 1840 in Skaldestycken av Wallin och Tegnér.

Since that time there has been many different editions of this poem.

The most famous edition is Dödens Engel, illustrated by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson 1880, which has been used in many different translations such as in Danish, Germany, English, Spannish.