Sophie Hoechstetter Explained

Sophie Hoechstetter
Birth Name:Sophie Walburga Margaretha Hoechstetter
Birth Date:15 August 1873
Birth Place:Pappenheim, German Empire
Death Place:Dachau, Nazi Germany
Occupation:writer, poet, artist
Nationality:German

Sophie Walburga Margaretha Hoechstetter (15 August 1873 – 4 April 1943) was a German painter, poet,[1] and author.

Hoechstetter was born in Pappenheim as the youngest daughter of a pharmacist. She wrote numerous novels and poems. She admired George Gordon Byron and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.[2] Hoechstetter died in Dachau on the farm of Carl Olof and Elly Petersen. She was buried in the St. Gallus Church in Pappenheim.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Paley . David William . Sophie Walburga Margaretha Hoechstetter 1873-1943 . 2017-04-14 . Poems Without Frontiers.
  2. Web site: Sophie Hoechstetter, Dichterin & Malerin. Prusakow . Renate . February 2007 . alemannia-judaica. 24 March 2017 .