Emilie Tegtmeyer

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Emilie Tegtmeyer

1827–1903

A 19th-century German writer and teacher, remembered for the practical, educational spirit of her work and for writing for young readers. Her life stretched from rural Holstein to Bremen, where she died in 1903.

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Novelleja ja kertomuksia I

Novelleja ja kertomuksia I

by August Blanche, Minna Canth, Camille Dehas, Emilie Tegtmeyer

About the author

Born on January 5, 1827, in Hornsmühlen, Holstein, Emilie Tegtmeyer was a German writer and teacher. Available biographical sources identify her full name as Leopoldine Emilie Ernestine "Emmy" Tegtmeyer and note that she died in Bremen on February 16, 1903.

She is generally described as both an educator and an author, which suggests that her writing grew out of a strong interest in teaching and everyday learning. That combination often gives her work a clear, useful tone that still makes older children's and family literature interesting to explore today.

Reliable online information about her appears to be limited, so some parts of her career are not easy to confirm in detail. Even so, she stands out as one of the many 19th-century women whose literary and educational work helped shape reading for younger audiences in the German-speaking world.