Maria Susanna (also Susanne) Kübler (1814–1873) was a Swiss writer who is remembered for her housekeeping guides and cookbooks, especially the popular ''Das Hauswesen'' (Housekeeping, 1850) which also contained recipes.

Biography

Born on 27 February 1814 in

Winterthur Winterthur (; ) is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. With over 120,000 residents, it is the country's List of cities in Switzerland, sixth-largest city by population, as well as its ninth-largest agglomeration with about 14 ...

, Maria Kübler was the daughter of the teacher Jakob Kübler and the sister of Jakob Kübler (1827–1899), who from 1851 was a clergyman in

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. In 1834, she married the merchant Jakob Heinrich Haggenmacher. Following their divorce, in 1845 she married Johannes Scherr, a German-born writer, schoolteacher, college professor and political activist. Kübler studied English, French and Italian at

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in French-speaking Switzerland. In 1845, she moved to

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, Germany, with her second husband but returned to Switzerland in 1849 after he ran into political difficulties. Kübler returned to Winterthur in 1852 and from 1860 lived in

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. She worked as a translator, language teacher and writer of household guides and cookbooks.

Selected publications

In 1850, she published ''Das Hauswesen'' (full title: ''Das Hauswesen: Nach seinem ganzen Umfang dargestellt in Briefen an eine Freundin'' or Housekeeping: Described in its Entirety in Letters to a Friend). She went on to publish several more household guides and cookbooks as well as children's stories. These include: *''Der Frauenspiegel'' (1854) *''Die Hausmutter'' (1857) *''Mährchen und Geschichtenbuch der Fee Chrysalinde'' (children's stories, 1857) *''Die geschickte Köchin'' (1858) *''Das Buch der Mütter'' (on child care and upbringing, 1867)

References

External links

Google's digitized version of the first edition of ''Das Hauswesen''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kubler, Maria Susanna 1814 births 1873 deaths People from Winterthur Swiss writers Swiss women writers Swiss cookbook writers Women food writers 19th-century Swiss women writers