A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Gottsched, Louisa Adelgunde Victoria

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GOTTSCHED, LOUISA ADELGUNDE VICTORIA,

Was born at Dantzic, in 1713. Her maiden name was Kalmus. When only sixteen years of age, she married Professor Gottsched, of the Leipsic university. She aided her husband in all his literary labours; and appeared, in a short time after her marriage, as an authoress under her own name. Her style is pronounced by critics as superior to that of her husband; though he enjoyed a great reputation as an author. She wrote a number of melodramas, and a very fine tragedy—"Panthea." Her death occurred in 1792.