Rebecca Friedländer (4 October 1783 – 30 August 1850) was a German novelist and short-story writer, composed “romantic novels” under the pen name of Regina Frohberg. She was also a close friend of

Rahel Varnhagen Rahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen () (née Levin, later Robert; 19 May 1771 – 7 March 1833) was a German writer who hosted one of the most prominent salons in Europe during the late-18th and early-19th centuries. She is the subject of a celebr ...

, a renowned German writer.

Biography

Rebecca Friedländer was born as Rebecca Solomon in

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, Germany on 4 October 1783 into a Jewish family of Jacob B Solomon and Cheile Eger. Her father, who was a jewel merchant for the court, changed the family name from Solomon to Saaling. In 1801, at the age of eighteen, she married Moses Friedländer, a banker, who was the son of

David Friedländer David Friedländer (sometimes spelled Friedlander; 6 December 1750, Königsberg – 25 December 1834, Berlin) was a German banker, writer and communal leader. Life Communal leader and author in Berlin, a pioneer of the practice and ideology of ...

, a prominent leader of the Berlin Jewish community. But she got a divorce in 1805. She converted to Christianity, and changed her name as Regina Frohberg. She never remarried. Her first novel was published in 1808. In the beginning the literary style of her novels focused on "the romantic life about salon society". In 1813 she moved to Vienna, and resided until her death. She died in

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, Vienna on 30 August 1850.

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