Louise-Victorine Ackermann

Poet, born in Paris, France. She was educated by her father and went on to study German in Berlin (1843), where she met and married Paul Ackermann, a philologist. On his death in 1845 she went to live with her sister in Nice where she wrote Contes en Vers (1855) and Contes et poésies, poésies philosophiques (1874), which powerfully express a deep sense of pessimism and outrage at human suffering.

Louise-Victorine Ackermann, née Choquet (30 November 1813 - 2 August 1890) was a French poet.

Soon after the publication of this volume Madame Ackermann removed to Paris, where she gathered round her a circle of friends, but published nothing further except a prose volume, the Pensees d'un solitaire ("Thoughts of a Recluse", 1883), to which she prefixed a short autobiography.

See also Anatole France, La vie Htteraire, 4th series (1892);