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Elise Vogel Polko (31 January 1823 in
Elise Vogel Polko (31 January 1823 in Leipzig
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– 15 May 1899 in Munich
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) was a German novelist
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.
Biography
She was a sister ofEduard Vogel
Eduard Vogel (7 March 1829February 1856) was a German explorer in Central Africa.
Early career
Vogel was born in Krefeld. He studied mathematics, botany and astronomy at Leipzig and Berlin, studying with Encke at the latter institution. In ...
, the African explorer, and attained considerable fame as a public singer, but retired from the stage after her marriage to Polko, a scientist, and thenceforth devoted herself to literature, in which field she won much notice.
Works
Her ''Musikalische Märchen'' (Musical tales; 1852) was translated into English, as were others of her books. She published ''Ein Frauenleben'' (A woman's life; 1854), ''Erinnerungen an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy'' (Recollections of Felix Mendelssohn; 1868), ''Aus dem Jahre 1870'', ''Conversations'' (1872), ''Neues Märchenbuch'' (1884), and other works.Notes
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* * 1822 births 1899 deaths 19th-century German women singers German women novelists 19th-century German novelists 19th-century German women writers {{Germany-writer-stub