A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Culman, Elizabeth
CULMAN, ELIZABETH,
Is worthy of a place beside Lucretia Davidson; she died when only seventeen years old. Miss Culman was born in the year 1816 at St. Petersburg. She was already a prodigy of learning at an age when other children only commence their education. In her fourteenth year she was acquainted with ancient and modern Greek, the Latin, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese languages and literature, and had then translated the Odes of Anacreon into her vernacular. But just when her mind gave promise of becoming one of the greatest ornaments of her country, death removed her to A higher state of existence. She died in 1833, at St. Petersburg; and a year after her death, her writings, making three volumes, were published in that city.