Rosa Maria Antonetta Paulina Assing (née Varnhagen; 28 May 1783,

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

– 22 January 1840, Hamburg) was a German lyric poet, prose-writer, educator, translator, and silhouette artist. She was the elder sister of Karl August Varnhagen, sister-in-law of Rahel Levin, wife of

David Assing David Assur Assing (12 December 1787, Königsberg – 25 April 1842, Hamburg) was a Prussian physician and poet. Biography Assing studied at the universities of Tübingen, Halle, Vienna, and Göttingen. He received his doctorate from the U ...

(1787 – 1842), and mother of Ottilie and Ludmilla Assing. Her friends included Amalie Schoppe,

David Veit David Veit (8 November 1771, in Breslau – 15 April 1814) was a medical doctor and writer from the Kingdom of Prussia. Life His father, Juda Veit (1716–1786), was a banker, and his brother, Simon Veit, was the husband of Moses Mendelssohn's d ...

, and Fanny Tarnow.

References

* Johann Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Merzdorf: "Assing, David." In: ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB). Band 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, S. 624 f. – Nebeneintrag 1783 births 1840 deaths Writers from Düsseldorf People from the Electoral Palatinate 19th-century German educators German women poets Silhouettists Varnhagen family German salon-holders 19th-century German poets 19th-century German women writers 19th-century German artists 19th-century German women artists 19th-century German translators 18th-century German poets 18th-century German women writers {{Germany-translator-stub