Born: 2 January 1814, Germany
Died: 26 September 1873
Country most active: Germany
Also known as: Klara Müller Mundt
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Louise Mühlbach, the pseudonym of Klara Müller Mundt, a German novelist. In 1839 she was married to the author, Theodore Mundt, and in the same year published her first novel.
The long series of historical romances which followed gained great popularity, and brought her a large fortune, enabling her to support her husband during the long illness which proceeded his death, and to build a handsome residence in Berlin, where she was a prominent figure in literary society.
Mme. Mundt was an advocate of female suffrage and of great changes in the social political views, and a frequent participant in reform movements. She wrote many essays on social questions.
Her stories have been translated into English, and are well known in Great Britain and America. The most important of these works are: Frederick the Great and his Court, Henry VIII and Catharine Parr, Louisa of Prussia and her Times, Marie Antoinette and her Son, The Empress Josephine and The Thirty Years’ War.
She wrote in all more than fifty separate novels, comprising nearly one hundred volumes.
From Woman: Her Position, Influence and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World. Designed and Arranged by William C. King. Published in 1900 by The King-Richardson Co. Copyright 1903 The King-Richardson Co.:
German novelist. Her husband, Theador Mundt, was for some years a teacher in the University of Berlin, and afterward became professor of general history and literature in Breslau, and then became director of the library of the Berlin University. In politics he was a liberalist and often gave offense. For many years he was an invalid, but the income from the works written by his wife enabled them to live in comfort.
Under the pseudonym of “Luise Muhlbach,” Mrs. Mundt produced more than fifty novels, and her works comprise about one hundred volumes. She was a pronounced advocate of woman’s suffrage and other radical changes in the status of woman. In politics, she was, like her husband, an extreme liberalist and actively participated in several reform movements.
Her fame rests chiefly upon her historical romances. In this field she wielded a ready pen. Most of these works are as well known in England and America as in Germany. Among the best known are : Frederick the Great and His Court, Joseph II. and His Court, The Merchant of Berlin, Louisa of Prussia and Her Times, Marie Antoinette and Her Son, Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia, Queen Hortense, The Empress Josephine, Goethe and Schiller, Mohammed AH and His House, also The Thirty Years’ War, and Emperor William.
Her works brought her a fortune which was well earned and she was enabled to build a handsome residence in Berlin, which became the meeting place of literary and social leaders.