Louise-Victorine Ackermann

Louise-Victorine Ackermann(néeChoquet) (30 November 1813 – 2 August 1890) was a FrenchParnassianpoet.

Life

Ackermann was born inParis,but spent her younger days in more rural surroundings nearMontdidier,south-east ofAmiens.In 1829, her father, having undertaken her early education, in the philosophy of theEncyclopaedists,sent her to school in Paris.

In 1838, Victorine Choquet went to Berlin to study German, and there married Paul Ackermann, anAlsatian philologist,in 1843. After little more than two years of happy married life her husband died, and Madame Ackermann went to live inNicewith a favorite sister. In 1855, she publishedContes en vers,and in 1862,Contes et poésies.^[1]

Very different from these simple and charming contes is the work on which Madame Ackermann's real reputation rests. She published in 1874Poésies, premières poésies, poésies philosophiques,a volume of sombre and powerful verse, expressing her revolt againsthuman suffering.The volume was enthusiastically reviewed in theRevue des deux mondesfor May 1871 byElme Marie Caro,who, though he deprecated theimpiété désespéréeof the verses, did full justice to their vigour and the excellence of their form.^[1]

Soon after the publication of this volume Madame Ackermann moved back to Paris, where she gathered round her a circle of friends, but published nothing further except a prose volume, thePensées d'un solitaire( "Thoughts of a Recluse", 1883), to which she prefixed a short autobiography. She died at Nice on 2 August 1890.^[1]

Published works

Louise Ackermann's published works as cited byAn Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers.^[2]^: 2

Contes et Poésues,1862.
Le Deluge,1876.
Pensées d'une Solitaire, Precédées d'une Autobiographie,1882.
Oeuvres,1885.
Ma Vie,1885.
Première Poésies,1885.
Poésies Philosophiques,1885.
Contes,1955.
Poésies Philosophiques,1971.

References

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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Ackermann, Louise Victorine Choquet".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148.Endnotes:
- See alsoAnatole France,La vie littéraire,4th series (1892);
- the comte d'Haussonville,Mme Ackermann(1882);
- M. Citoleux,La poésie philosophique au XIXe siècle(vol. 1.,Mme Ackermann d'après de nombreux documents inédits,Paris, 1906).
^Wilson, Katharina M. (1991).An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers.New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc.

External links

Works by Louise-Victorine AckermannatLibriVox(public domain audiobooks)

[EB1911-1] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Ackermann, Louise Victorine Choquet".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148.Endnotes:
See alsoAnatole France,La vie littéraire,4th series (1892);

the comte d'Haussonville,Mme Ackermann(1882);

M. Citoleux,La poésie philosophique au XIXe siècle(vol. 1.,Mme Ackermann d'après de nombreux documents inédits,Paris, 1906).

[2] See alsoAnatole France,La vie littéraire,4th series (1892);

[3] the comte d'Haussonville,Mme Ackermann(1882);

[4] M. Citoleux,La poésie philosophique au XIXe siècle(vol. 1.,Mme Ackermann d'après de nombreux documents inédits,Paris, 1906).

[An_Encyclopedia_of_Continental_Women_Writers-2] Wilson, Katharina M. (1991).An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers.New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc.

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