Nahida Sturmhöfel

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Nahida Sturmhöfel (born November 24, 1822 in Flatow , † October 24, 1889 in San Terenzo ) was a German poet . She also wrote under the pen name St. Hadian .

Life

Nahida Sturmhöfel was born as the daughter of the captain and district tax collector Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Sturmhöfel and his wife Konkordia Adelheid Karoline geb. Knopf was born on November 24, 1822. In 1848 she founded a women's magazine in Dresden. The following year their daughter Nahida Ruth was born in Berlin.

After separating from her husband Max Schasler , the relationship had failed even before the birth of her daughter, as Schasler was expelled from Prussia for revolutionary activities , she went to Italy and lived there as an educator and freelance writer. The poems she published in 1865 under the title Freie Lieder were immediately confiscated. The 2nd edition of the Free Songs appeared in 1887. Later she wrote Götzen, Götter und Gott , also Neo Latin as a world language and lastly (1888) Forgotten Songs . She traveled extensively within Italy and died on October 24, 1889 in San Terenzo near Spezia.

She was one of the first pioneers in the field of women and made a name for herself as a lyric poet.

Works

  • Free songs (1865) - confiscated
  • Idols, gods, god (1876)
  • New Latin as a world language. A proposal (1884)
  • Revelations for All (1867) or (1887?)
  • Free songs (2nd edition 1887)
  • Forgotten Songs (1888)

literature

  • Schrattenthal: Our women . Stuttgart, Greiner u. Pfeiffer.
  • Goerke: The Flatow district . P. 455.
  • Sturmhoefel, Nahida . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 348 f. ( Digitized version ).

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