Sophie Hoechstetter

German painter, poet, and author

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Sophie Hoechstetter
Born	Sophie Walburga Margaretha Hoechstetter 15 August 1873 Pappenheim, German Empire
Died	4 April 1943(1943-04-04) (aged 69) Dachau, Nazi Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation(s)	writer, poet, artist

Sophie Walburga Margaretha Hoechstetter (15 August 1873 – 4 April 1943)^[1] was a German painter, poet,^[2] and author.

Hoechstetter was born in Pappenheim as the youngest daughter of a pharmacist. She wrote numerous novels and poems. She admired George Gordon Byron and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.^[1] Hoechstetter died in Dachau on the farm of Carl Olof and Elly Petersen. She was buried in the St. Gallus Church in Pappenheim.

References

^ ^a ^b Prusakow, Renate (February 2007). "Sophie Hoechstetter, Dichterin & Malerin" (PDF). alemannia-judaica. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
^ Paley, David William. "Sophie Walburga Margaretha Hoechstetter 1873-1943". Poems Without Frontiers. Retrieved 2017-04-14.