Luise Fastenrath (née Goldmann; 10 March 1858 – 28 March 1914), also known by the pen name Luise von Asten, was a Hungarian-born writer and translator.
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| Born | Luise Goldmann 10 March 1858 Zombor, Hungary |
| Died | 28 March 1914 (aged 56) Cologne, Prussia, German Empire |
| Pen name | Luise von Asten |
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She was born to a Jewish family in Zombor, the younger sister of Anna Forstenheim. In 1883, she converted to Catholicism and married writer Johannes Fastenrath at the Augustinian Church in Vienna.[1] She founded the Fastenrath Foundation soon after her husband's death in 1908.[2]
Fastenrath translated numerous works into German from Spanish, Catalan, and French,[3] including José Echegaray's drama Vida alegre y muerte triste.[4]
References edit
- ^ Baumgartner, Marianne (2015). Der Verein der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen in Wien (1885–1938) (PDF) (in German). Vienna: Böhlau Verlag. pp. 244–249. ISBN 978-3-205-79702-9. OCLC 919438287.
- ^ Blumesberger, Susanne; Doppelhofer, Michael; Mauthe, Gabriele, eds. (2002). "Fastenrath, Louise (L. von Asten, geb. Louise Goldmann)". Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft: 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert (in German). Vol. 1. Munich: K. G. Saur. p. 300. ISBN 3-598-11545-8.
- ^ Pataky, Sophie (1898). "Fastenrath, Frau Luise". Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder. eine Zusammenstellung der seit dem Jahre 1840 erschienenen Werke weiblicher Autoren, nebst Biographieen der lebenden und einem Verzeichnis der Pseudonyme (in German). Berlin: Verlagsbuchhandlung von Carl Pataky. p. 205.
- ^ Meyer, Herrmann Julius, ed. (1903). "Echegaray, José". Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon (in German). Vol. 5. Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut. p. 348.
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