Luise von Ploennies (7 November 1803 – 22 January 1872) was a German poet.

Life

She was born at

Hanau Hanau () is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its Hanau Hauptbahnhof, station is a ...

, the daughter of the naturalist

Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1 August 1771 or 1772 – 8 December 1813) was a German physician and natural history, naturalist. Leisler named a number of birds, including the Temminck's stint, which he named after his friend Coenraad Jaco ...

. In 1824 she married the physician August von Ploennies in

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

. After his death in 1847 she resided for some years in

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, then at

Jugenheim Seeheim-Jugenheim is a municipality in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in Hesse, Germany. It has a population of approximately 17,000. Seeheim-Jugenheim consists of seven villages: *Balkhausen (population 693) *Jugenheim (population 4,448) *Malch ...

on the Bergstrasse, and finally at Darmstadt, where she died. Between 1844 and 1870 she published several volumes of verse, being particularly happy in eclectic love songs, patriotic poems and descriptions of scenery. She also wrote two biblical dramas, ''Maria Magdalena'' (1870) and ''David'' (1873). As a translator from the English, Luise von Ploennies published two collections of poems, ''Britannia'' (1843) and ''Englische Lyriker des 19ten Jahrhunderts'' (1863, 3rd ed., 1867).

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ploennies, Luise von 1803 births 1872 deaths German women poets People from the Electorate of Hesse 19th-century poets 19th-century German women writers 19th-century German writers