Born: 11 September 1800, Germany
Died: 17 December 1875
Country most active: Germany
Also known as: Adelheid Karoline Wilhelmine Julie von Zwierlein
The following is excerpted from A Cyclopædia of Female Biography, published 1857 by Groomsbridge and Sons and edited by Henry Gardiner Adams.
German poetess, (her maiden name was Stolterforth,) was born at Eisenach, September 12th, 1800. She was made a royal Bavarian Canoness in a convent on the Rhine, and became afterwards the wife of the privy councillor Baron von Twierlein. She resides at present at Geissenheim, in the Rbeingau. The characteristics of her poetic writings are tender and lowly feelings and great thoughtfulness, combined with a very elegant diction. Among the best of her productions we may count “Stolzenfels,” (Castle Proudrock) and the epic “Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons.”