Ida von Düringsfeld

Born in Militsch in Silesia on November 12, 1815, Ida von Düringsfeld became a German writer who published from a young age. Sources agree that she began with poetry, and some of her early work appeared under the pseudonym Thekla.

After her marriage in 1845 to Otto Freiherr von Reinsberg, she was often known as Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld. She wrote novels and novellas, but she is also remembered for cultural and linguistic studies produced during extensive travels, including work on proverbs, national songs, and European customs, some of it created together with her husband.

She died in Stuttgart on October 25, 1876. What makes her especially interesting today is the range of her writing: she moved from imaginative literature into careful, observant books about the ways people speak, celebrate, and live.