A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Lyser, Caroline Leonhardt

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LYSER, CAROLINE LEONHARDT,

Was born in 1814, In Zittau, and removed in 1832 to Dresden, where she was married to the author and painter, John Peter Lyser, In 1839, she made her débût at Nuremberg as an improvisatrice, where she was received with enthusiastic applause; she afterwards appeared with the same success in many other large cities of Germany. She wrote "The Chaplet of Songs" in 1834, "Characteristics for German Women and Girls" in 1838, "Master Durer," a drama, in 1840, and many novelettes. In 1850, she published an annual, called "The Gift of Autumn." None of her works have been translated into English; but in Germany her songs are very popular.