Alice von Mülinen

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Alice von Mülinen (maiden name Mathilde Emma Alice de Bary ; born August 30, 1868 in Guebwiller , † August 31, 1952 ) was a Swiss poet .

De Bary came from the Alsatian branch of a family of silk ribbon manufacturers in Basel. In 1888 she married Hans von Mülinen (1858–1936), who was the chief forester in Bern. Helene von Mülinen was her sister-in-law. The daughter Beatrix was born in 1889. Alice von Mülinen published her volume of poetry Le Vent dans les Arbres in 1909 and then five more, also in French. She was co-founder and from 1914 to 1936 the second president of the International Lyceum Club Bern and maintained an extensive network of correspondents. In addition to documents on her writing and her correspondence, her estate in the Bern Citizens' Library also documents her botanical interest; she was also known as an alpinist .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Alice von Mülinen at katalog.burgerbib.ch
  2. Annelies Hüssy:  Mülinen, Helene. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 306 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. Hans Braun: Beatrix von Steiger in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland
  4. a b Estate of Alice de Bary in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern