Rahel Varnhagen
Writer, Deceased Person
1771 – 1833
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Who was Rahel Varnhagen?
Rahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen, née Levin, later Robert, was a German writer who hosted one of the most prominent salons in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She is the subject of a celebrated biography, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess, written by Hannah Arendt. Arendt cherished Varnhagen as her "closest friend, though she ha[d] been dead for some hundred years". The asteroid 100029 Varnhagen is named in her honour.
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- Born
- May 19, 1771
Berlin - Also known as
- Фарнгаген фон Энзе, Рахель
- Siblings
- Religion
- Christianity
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Lived in
- Berlin
- Died
- Mar 7, 1833
Berlin
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on July 23, 2013
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