Louise-Victorine Ackermann

Louise - Victorine Ackermann, born Choquet ( born November 30, 1813 in Paris; † August 3, 1890 in Nice ) was a French writer and member of the Parnassian.

Life

With 16 years of Ackermann came in 1829 on a lyceum in Paris and nine years later she began a German Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. During their stay in Berlin she met the Alsatian philologist Paul Ackermann and married him in 1843.

When her husband died unexpectedly on July 26, 1846, Ackermann be settled in Nice and lived there about 25 years in a household of her sisters. Shortly after the war ended, she returned to Paris, where she soon found following the Parnassian. Alphonse Lemerre they could win then also to cooperate in the later became famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain.

Reception

Ackermann's early stories can be classified as fantasy, whereas their poetry rather the pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer and Alfred de Vigny's approach.

Your employees or their publications in journals such as the Revue des Deux Mondes, Mercure de Paris et al Periodicals they made very quickly known nationwide.

Works (selection)

• Contes. 1855
• Premieres poésies. 1862
• Le déluge. 1876
• Pensées d'une solitaire. 1882