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Karoline von Woltmann
1782–1847
A sharp, prolific voice of the German Romantic era, she wrote novels, tales, poems, essays, reviews, and translations, sometimes under the name Luise Berg. Her work earned enough attention in her own lifetime for contemporaries to compare her with Madame de Genlis.
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Heloise : ein kleiner Roman
by Karoline von Woltmann
About the author
Born in Berlin in 1782 as Karoline Stosch, she became known as Karoline von Woltmann after her marriage to the writer and historian Karl Ludwig von Woltmann. She was a German author of the Romantic period and also published under the pseudonym Luise Berg.
She wrote across several forms, including novels, fairy tales, poems, essays, reviews, and translations from English. Sources on her work also note titles such as Euphrosyne and Maria und Walpurgis, and describe her as a writer engaged with questions of women, education, and moral development.
She died in Berlin in 1847. Although she is not widely known today, surviving reference works and literary archives show that she was a visible and versatile literary figure in her time.