Mathilde Mann

Mathilde Mann (née Mathilde Charlotte Bertha Friederike Scheven) was a prominent German translator and editor, especially for Nordic languages.
Life.
Mann was born on February 24, 1859, in Rostock. She was the daughter of the physician "Ernst (Heinrich Carl) Scheven". With the support of her family, she learned French, English, Italian, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. In 1878 she married "Johann Bernhard Mann", the son of Royal Danish Consul "Friedrich Johann Bernhard Mann" (1853–1910). After her husband's grain trade went bankrupt in 1885, she saved him from prison utilizing a petition. In the same year, the couple settled in Copenhagen, Denmark. There she began to offer her services as a translator and thus achieved a high level of awareness.
With the steadily increasing emancipation and economic independence from her husband, the couple split up in 1892. In 1893 she was sworn in as a translator for Nordic languages by the Rostocker Gewett (Senate) and lived in Warnemünde. In 1895 she moved to Altona, and in 1906 to Hamburg. During this time she mainly worked as a translator and translated works by Henrik Ibsen and Hans Christian Andersen into German. The Danish King awarded her the Golden Medal for Art and Science in 1910 for her services to Danish literature. In 1911 she went back to Denmark.
From 1921, she worked as a lecturer for the Danish language for the University of Rostock. The official establishment of a lecturer's office failed because the responsible ministry did not provide the necessary funds. In 1924, the university honored her as the first woman without an academic career with an honorary doctorate. Mann died in Rostock on February 14 1925.
Translations.
Mann had translated more than 300 books in at least 4 languages. Here are some widely held works by Mathilde Mann: