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Karoline von Woltmann

1782–1847

A novelist, poet, and translator from Berlin, she published during the late Enlightenment and early Romantic period and also wrote under the name Luise Berg. Her work sits in the lively literary world of early nineteenth-century Germany, where women writers were steadily claiming more space.

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Heloise : ein kleiner Roman

Heloise : ein kleiner Roman

by Karoline von Woltmann

About the author

Born in Berlin on March 6, 1782, Karoline von Woltmann was a German author whose life stretched across a remarkably active literary era. Reliable library and author records identify her as a novelist, poet, and translator, and note that she also used the pseudonym Luise Berg.

She is associated with Berlin’s literary culture, and records from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences place both her birth and death in Berlin, with her death on November 18, 1847. Her writing belongs to the transition between the late Enlightenment and German Romanticism, which helps explain the mix of intellectual and imaginative interests found in authors of her generation.

Although she is not as widely known today as some of her contemporaries, surviving author records and public-domain listings show that her work continued to circulate well beyond her lifetime. That lasting trace makes her an interesting figure for listeners curious about overlooked women writers from nineteenth-century Germany.