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.[1] She was also a close friend of Rahel Varnhagen, a renowned German writer.[2]
Biography
editRebecca Friedländer was born as Rebecca Solomon in Berlin, Germany on 4 October 1783 into a Jewish family of Jacob B Solomon and Cheile Eger.[3] 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, a prominent leader of the Berlin Jewish community.[4][5][6] But she got a divorce in 1805. She converted to Christianity, and changed her name as Regina Frohberg.[7] She never remarried.[8]
Her first novel was published in 1808. In the beginning the literary style of her novels focused on "the romantic life about salon society".[9] In 1813 she moved to Vienna, and resided until her death.[10]
She died in Ischl, Vienna on 30 August 1850.
References
edit- ^ Blackwell, Jeannine (1 January 1990). Bitter Healing: German Women Writers from 1700 to 1830 : an Anthology. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-803-29436-3. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ French, Lorely (1996). German Women as Letter Writers, 1750-1850. Vancouver, British Columbia: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-838-63664-0. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ Collins, James B. (15 April 2008). Early Modern Europe: Issues and Interpretations. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. p. 290. ISBN 978-1-405-15207-5. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ Hertz, Deborah Sadie (1 January 1998). Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-300-03775-3. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ Cypess, Rebecca (2018). Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-580-46921-0. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ Tewarson, Heidi Thomann (1 January 1998). Rahel Levin Varnhagen: The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-803-29436-3. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ Tewarson 1998, p. 103.
- ^ Hertz 1998, p. 206.
- ^ Hertz 1998, p. 177.
- ^ Lorenz, Dagmar C. G. (1 January 1997). Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-803-22917-4. Retrieved 13 June 2022.