Anna Vivanti-Lindau

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Anna Vivanti-Lindau , b. Anna Lindau (* 1828 in Magdeburg ; † January 31, 1880 in Milan ) was a German salonnière , writer and translator .

life and work

Lindau was the daughter of the doctor and later Justice Commissioner Karl Ferdinand Leopold Lindau (1797–1868) and his wife Henriette Bernadine, nee. Müller. She had the two brothers Paul and Rudolf , who also both appeared as writers.

During a stay in Switzerland , she met the Italian businessman Anselmo Vivanti (1827–1890), who at that time already had three children with another woman. Lindau and Vivanti married around 1853. The couple had children Italo (1855), Anselmo Luis (1856), Eva (1861) and Anna Emilia (1868–1942), who was also known as a writer.

Lindau had moved to London with her husband in 1855 , where she ran a literary salon in which u. a. German exiles frequented, including Ferdinand Freiligrath and Karl Marx , with whom she was close friends. She also corresponded with members of Marx's family and the writers Klaus Groth and Karl Schönhardt .

Vivanti-Lindau also worked in the literary magazine Die Gegenwart , founded and initially edited by her brother Paul, for example with regard to Heinrich Heine's tragedy William Ratcliff , published in 1823 . She is also known to children's books and travelogues . She also worked as a translator from English. So she has u. a. In 1876 her translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's poem Ein Aprilag was published. Her translation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven followed in 1878, also in the magazine Der Salon für Literatur, Kunst und Gesellschaft .

Works (selection)

1st page by Anna Vivanti-Lindau's translation from 1878 by Edgar Allan Poe's Der Rabe .
  • A Journey to Crete, Constantinople, Naples and Florence. Three Months Abroad. London 1865 ( digitized version )
  • The master of his passion. ( Novelle ) In: The Salon for Literature, Art and Society. AH Payne, Leipzig 1878, Volume 1, pp. 513-530.
  • The Raven. (Poem by Edgar Allan Poe : The Raven ) In: The Salon for Literature, Art and Society. AH Payne, Leipzig 1878, Volume 1, pp. 355-357.
  • New fairy tales. Schlesische Verlags-Anstalt v. S. Schottländer, Breslau 1887.

Web links

Wikisource: Anna Vivanti-Lindau  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sharon Wood, Erica Moretti (Ed.): Annie Chartres Vivanti. Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture. The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies, 2016, ISBN 978-1-68393-006-8 , SX
  2. ^ Franz Hirsch (ed.): The salon for literature, art and society. AH Payne , Leipzig 1876, Volume 2, p. 794.
  3. ^ Franz Hirsch (ed.): The salon for literature, art and society. AH Payne, Leipzig 1878, Volume 1, pp. 355-357.
personal data
SURNAME Vivanti-Lindau, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindau, Anna; Vivanti, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German salonière, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1880
Place of death Milan