Mary Lavater-Sloman

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Mary Lavater-Sloman (born December 14, 1891 in Hamburg , † December 5, 1980 in Zurich ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Mary Lavater-Sloman was the daughter of a long-established family of shipowners from Hamburg and attended a private girls' high school there from 1898 to 1907. At the age of 18, she and her family moved to Saint Petersburg , where they met the Swiss engineer Emil Lavater . After the engagement in 1912, the two married in early November 1912 in Switzerland in the same year. In 1913 their first daughter Varya was born, and Mary Lavater-Sloman stayed for the first time briefly in her future home in Winterthur . In 1914 the couple moved to Moscow , where their son Caspar was born in 1916. From 1919 to 1920, after an adventurous escape, the couple lived in Winterthur for a year, where their third child, Rudolph, was born. After that, the couple lived in Athens from 1920 to 1922 .

In 1922, she and her family, which now has four children, finally settled at Trollstrasse 37 in Winterthur; her husband had meanwhile become director of the Sulzer machine works . In 1926 she gave birth to their youngest daughter Cleophea. Looking for a job, Mary Lavater-Sloman began writing in Winterthur. Her first work was a never published history book for her children. She then wrote more books before writing her first historical novel in 1935, Der Schweizerkönig , which was about the life of Basel mayor Johann Rudolf Wettstein . She celebrated her first major success with her novel about Henri Meister , which was published a year later, and has now written a new novel every one or two years.

After her husband's retirement in 1943, the two moved to Ascona after more than twenty years in Winterthur . In 1964 her husband died in Ticino after a long and serious illness. Seven years after the death of her husband, she moved to Zurich in 1972. In 1976, the Queen's Companion, her last novel was published. Mary Lavater-Sloman died on December 5, 1980, her grave is in the Fluntern cemetery in Zurich.

Mary Lavater-Sloman became famous for depicting important figures in Europe. Their biographies are characterized by a love of detail and extensive source study.

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SURNAME Lavater-Sloman, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1980
Place of death Zurich