Hermine Rheinberger

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Hermine Rheinberger (14 July 1864 – 24 January 1932) was a Liechtensteiner writer. She was Liechtenstein's first female author.

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Biography Hermine Rheinberger was born on 14 July 1864 in Vaduz, the capital city of Liechtenstein. She was the oldest of four children born to Peter Rheinberger, a civil engineer and army officer, and her mother Theresia Rheinberger, growing up with two sisters – Olga and Emma – and a brother, the artist and architect Egon Rheinberger (1870–1936). Her uncle was the composer Josef Rheinberger. After attending elementary school in Vaduz, Rheinberger studied at the Institut Gutenberg in Balzers, run by the Sisters of Christian Charity, from 1877 to 1881. She became interested in literature and history at a young age, and she was supported in her literary pursuits by her brother and by her cousin Ferdinand Nigg. In the late 1870s, she began to write poetry celebrating nature and her homeland of Liechtenstein. In 1890 and 1891 she wrote the historical novel Gutenberg-Schalun: Eine Geschichte aus dem 14. Jahrhundert ("Gutenberg-Schalun: A Story From the 14th Century"), studying local history, folklore, and the Middle High German language as part of her research for the book. It was published in 1897, making her the first woman to publish a work of literature in Liechtenstein. The novel was well received, even drawing…Citește mai mult