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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Baroness Elizabeth Philippine Amalie von Hohenhausen (1789–1857)

Hohenhausen, Baroness Elizabeth Philippine Amalie von (ho”en-hous’en). A German poet, dramatist, and romancer; born in Waldau, near Cassel, Nov. 4, 1789; died at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, Dec. 2, 1857. Her father was General Adam Ludwig von Ochs, and in 1809 she married Baron Leopold von Hohenhausen, who left her a widow in 1848. Her poetry was published in 1817, under the title ‘Flowers of Spring.’ ‘Nature, Art, and Life’ is a volume of her recollections, and ‘John and Cornelius de Witt’ is a historical play of merit.