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Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Hermynia Zur Mühlen (12 December 1883 – 20 March 1951), or Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet, was an Austrian writer and translator. She translated over seventy books into German from English, Russian and French, including work by Upton Sinclair, John Galsworthy, Jerome K. Jerome, Harold Nicolson, Max Eastman and Edna Ferber.Lionel Grossman, 'Remembering Hermynia Zur Mühlen: A Tribute', in Hermynia Zur Mühlen, The End and the Beginning: a Memoir', Open Book Publishers, 2010, pp.271-295 She has been characterised as "one of the best known women writers of the Weimar Republic." A committed socialist from a Viennese aristocratic Roman Catholic, Catholic family, she was sometimes called the Red Countess. Life The Countess Folliot de Crenneville, born as Hermine Isabelle Maria Gräfin Folliot de Crenneville in Vienna, was the great granddaughter of Louis Charles Folliot de Crenneville, a French-born general who fought for the Habsburg monarchy in the Napoleonic Wars. Her paterna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermynia Zur Mühlen (late 1920s) Drawn By Emil Stumpp
Hermynia Zur Mühlen (12 December 1883 – 20 March 1951), or Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet, was an Austrian people, Austrian writer and translator. She translated over seventy books into German from English, Russian and French, including work by Upton Sinclair, John Galsworthy, Jerome K. Jerome, Harold Nicolson, Max Eastman and Edna Ferber.Lionel Grossman, 'Remembering Hermynia Zur Mühlen: A Tribute', in Hermynia Zur Mühlen, The End and the Beginning: a Memoir', Open Book Publishers, 2010, pp.271-295 She has been characterised as "one of the best known women writers of the Weimar Republic." A committed socialist from a Viennese aristocratic Roman Catholic, Catholic family, she was sometimes called the Red Countess. Life The Countess Folliot de Crenneville, born as Hermine Isabelle Maria Gräfin Folliot de Crenneville in Vienna, was the great granddaughter of Louis Charles Folliot de Crenneville, a French-born general who fought for the Habsburg monarchy in the Napoleonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |