Louise-Victorine Ackermann (''née'' Choquet) (30 November 1813 – 2 August 1890) was a French Parnassian poet.

Life

Ackermann was born in

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, but spent her younger days in more rural surroundings near Montdidier, south-east of

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. In 1829, her father, having undertaken her early education, in the philosophy of the

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, sent her to school in Paris. In 1838, Victorine Choquet went to Berlin to study German, and there married Paul Ackermann, an Alsatian

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, in 1843. After little more than two years of happy married life her husband died, and Madame Ackermann went to live in

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, who, though he deprecated the ''impiété désespérée'' of the verses, did full justice to their vigour and the excellence of their form. Soon after the publication of this volume Madame Ackermann moved back to Paris, where she gathered round her a circle of friends, but published nothing further except a prose volume, the ''Pensées d'un solitaire'' ("Thoughts of a Recluse", 1883), to which she prefixed a short autobiography. She died at Nice on 2 August 1890.

Published works

Louise Ackermann's published works as cited by ''An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers''. *''Contes et Poésues'', 1862. *''Le Deluge'', 1876. *''Pensées d'une Solitaire, Precédées d'une Autobiographie'', 1882. *''Oeuvres'', 1885. *''Ma Vie'', 1885. *''Première Poésies'', 1885. *''Poésies Philosophiques'', 1885. *''Contes'', 1955. *''Poésies Philosophiques'', 1971.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ackermann, Louise-Victorine 1813 births 1890 deaths Poets from Paris 19th-century French poets French women poets 19th-century French women writers