Valeska Bolgiani

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Melanie Henriette Charlotte Caroline Valeska Bolgiani (née Müller, also Valeska Voigtel-Bolgiani; born March 26, 1830 in Minden ; † October 2, 1876 in Milan ) was a German writer . She published her works under the pseudonym Arthur Stahl .

Life

Valeska Bolgiani spent her widow years on Isola Bella

Bolgiani was the only daughter of the Prussian staff officer Friedrich Müller and spent her youth in Westphalia. In Magdeburg in 1854 she married the lawyer and MP Albert Voigtel (* 1809), whom she regularly accompanied to Berlin during MPs . From 1863 Bolgiani wrote novels and short stories. As a widow, she retired to Italy in 1868, where she lived in her villa on Isola Bella in Lake Maggiore and translated her works into Italian. Shortly before her death, she married the Italian officer Bolgiani, with whom she moved to Milan. She died in a madhouse in Milan in 1876.

Works

  • A prince by the grace of God. Novel. Costenoble, Leipzig 1863.
  • A female doctor. Novel. Costenoble, Leipzig 1863. ( digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 )
  • Gold. A story of the Bohemian Forest in 5 acts. Music by Fr. Chopin . Wigand, Leipzig 1866. ( digitized version )
  • Novellas and sketches. Fleischer, Leipzig 1867.
  • Spain. Travel sheets. Wigand, Leipzig 1868.
  • The daughter of the Alhambra. Historical novel in three books. Janke, Berlin 1869. ( digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 ), ( volume 3 )
  • In the land of the pharaohs. Travel pictures from Egypt. Hartleben, Vienna 1869. ( digitized version )
  • Historical pictures from the old world. Hartleben, Vienna / Pest / Leipzig 1870. ( digitized version )
  • From the good old days. A family painting. Dürr, Leipzig 1873.
  • Isola Bella. Novel. Westermann, Braunschweig 1876. ( digitized version )

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Stahl, Arthur . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 37th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, p. 91 ( digital copy ).
  • Heinrich Groß: German female poets and writers in words and pictures . Volume 1. Fr. Thiel, Berlin 1885, pp. 434-441.
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 288–289.
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 322.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrichs writes that it is unclear whether she was actually born in Minden. Friedrichs, p. 322.
personal data
SURNAME Bolgiani, Valeska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voigtel-Bolgiani, Valeska; Müller, Valeska; Stahl, Arthur (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1876
Place of death Milan