Adele Schopenhauer was born in Hamburg to Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, a businessman, and his wife Johanna.
She grew up in Weimar under the influence of a circle of artists and scholars who gathered in the literary salon run by her mother, but she received no formal education.
She was highly gifted and engaged in literature and poetry.
She not only wrote fairy tales, poems, and novels, but was also a talented papercut artist.
Both her papercuts and her literary contributions have been recognized and appreciated, especially in the English-speaking world.
She was sociable and likable but her love interests were unrequited and she never married.
Adele Schopenhauer was born in Hamburg to Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, a businessman, and his wife Johanna. She grew up in Weimar under the influence of a circle of artists and scholars who gathered in the literary salon run by her mother, but she received no formal education. She was highly gifted and engaged in literature and poetry. She not only wrote fairy tales, poems, and novels, but was also a talented papercut artist. Both her papercuts and her literary contributions have been recognized and appreciated, especially in the English-speaking world. She was sociable and likable but her love interests were unrequited and she never married.
Adele Schopenhauer