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.