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Adalbert Meinhardt
1848–1911
A German writer and translator from Hamburg, she published under the male pen name Adalbert Meinhardt. Her work reflects the many-sided literary life of the late 19th century, moving between original writing and translation.
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Hyvän-uskoja
by Adalbert Meinhardt
About the author
Marie Hirsch, who wrote as Adalbert Meinhardt, was born in Hamburg on March 12, 1848, and died there on November 17, 1911. She is identified in reliable reference sources as a German writer and translator, and several sources note that Adalbert Meinhardt was the pseudonym she used for publication.
Biographical accounts describe a strong education in languages and a career that included translation as well as literary work. She is especially associated with Hamburg, where she was born, lived, and died, and where her life has also been remembered in local biographical archives.
Like a number of women writers of the 19th century, she published under a male name, which gives her work an added historical interest today. Read now under both names, Marie Hirsch and Adalbert Meinhardt, she stands as a reminder of how women often had to navigate the literary world indirectly in order to be heard.