Amélie Linz

Amélie Linz

Amélie Linz (born May 22, 1824 in Bamberg , † April 24, 1904 in Munich ) was a German author.

Life

Born as the daughter of the doctor Friedrich Speyer and his wife Clara, b. von Godin, she spent several winters in Munich and in 1844 married the Prussian engineer officer Franz Xaver Linz, with whom she lived alternately in various garrison towns in the Rhine Province and later in Pomerania . Widowed in 1870, she moved to Munich in 1874. Under the name Godin, the maiden name of her mother, she published a number of juvenile writings which, like the fairy tales devised by a mother (Stuttgart 1858, 4th edition 1876), Neue Märchen (3rd edition 1881) and others, met with approval .

Works

• A disaster and its consequences (Breslau 1862)
• Historical novellas (Bonn 1863)
• Wally (Berlin 1871, 2 vols.)
• From a great time. Little rascals of our heroes, put into rhyme (Glogau 1873)
• Women's love and life , short stories (Leipzig 1876, 5 vols.)
• Storm and Peace , Pictures from Married Life (Stuttgart 1878)
• Countess Leonore (Leipzig 1882)
• Mother and son (that. 1878)
• Fates (that. 1882)
• Joyful and sorrowful (that. 1883)

literature

• Eva Maria Brockhoff:  Linz, Amélie. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 638 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , Leipzig 1888, Vol. X, p. 816 ( digitized version )
• Godin, A. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 265 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Linz-Godin, Amélie . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 509 f. ( Digitized version ).

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