Marie von Ebner Eschenbach
Baroness Marie von EbnerEschenbach was an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regardedtogether with Ferdinand von Saaras one of the most important Germanlanguage writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.
She was born at the castle of the Catholic Dubsk noble family in Zdislavice near Krom in Moravia , the daughter of Baron Dubsky and his wife Maria, ne Baroness Vockel, who came from a ProtestantSaxon background. Marie lost her mother in early infancy, but received a careful intellectual training from two stepmothers. In 1848 she married her cousin, the Austrian captain, and subsequent fieldmarshal, Moritz von EbnerEschenbach. The couple resided first in Vienna, then at Louka near Znojmo, where her husband had a military charge, and after 1860 again in Vienna. The marriage was childless.
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