Harriet Straub

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Harriet Straub

1872–1945

A German writer, translator, and physician, she moved through literary and intellectual circles in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Freiburg, and Meersburg. Her life joined medicine, travel, and literature in a way that gives her work a distinctive depth and independence.

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Rupertsweiler Leut

Rupertsweiler Leut

by Harriet Straub

About the author

Born in 1872, Harriet Straub was a German writer who also trained in medicine. Reliable sources describe her as a novelist and translator, and note that after periods in Stockholm and Copenhagen she returned to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1904 to continue her medical studies.

In Freiburg she met the writer and philosopher Fritz Mauthner, whom she later married. In 1909 the couple moved to Meersburg, where she remained part of a lively literary world while continuing her own work.

Straub died in 1945. Although she is less widely known today than some of her contemporaries, her life stands out for the unusual combination of literary work, translation, and medical study.