Luise Fastenrath

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| pseudonym=Luise von Asten

| birth_name=Luise Goldmann

| birth_date={{birth date|1858|03|10|df=y}}

| birth_place=Zombor, Kingdom of Hungary

| death_date={{death date and age|1914|03|28|1858|03|10|df=y}}

| death_place=Cologne, Prussia, German Empire

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Luise Fastenrath ({{nee|Goldmann}}; 10 March 1858 – 28 March 1914), also known by the pen name Luise von Asten, was a Hungarian-born writer and translator.

She was born to a Jewish family in Zombor, the younger sister of Anna Forstenheim. In 1883, she converted to Catholicism and married writer Johannes Fastenrath at the Augustinian Church in Vienna.{{r|baumgartner}} She founded the Fastenrath Foundation soon after her husband's death in 1908.{{r|handbuch}}

Fastenrath translated numerous works into German from Spanish, Catalan, and French,{{r|pataky}} including José Echegaray's drama Vida alegre y muerte triste.{{r|meyer}}

References

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{{cite book | last=Baumgartner | first=Marianne | title=Der Verein der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen in Wien (1885–1938) | publisher=Böhlau Verlag | location=Vienna | year=2015 | isbn=978-3-205-79702-9 | oclc=919438287 | language=de | pages=244–249|url=https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/29399/1000557.pdf}}

{{cite encyclopedia | last=Pataky | first=Sophie | title=Fastenrath, Frau Luise|encyclopedia=Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder. eine Zusammenstellung der seit dem Jahre 1840 erschienenen Werke weiblicher Autoren, nebst Biographieen der lebenden und einem Verzeichnis der Pseudonyme | publisher=Verlagsbuchhandlung von Carl Pataky | location=Berlin | year=1898 | language=de |url=http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/pataky_lexikon01_1898?p=223|page=205}}

{{cite encyclopedia|editor1-first=Susanne|editor1-last=Blumesberger|editor2-first=Michael|editor2-last=Doppelhofer|editor3-first=Gabriele|editor3-last=Mauthe|title=Fastenrath, Louise (L. von Asten, geb. Louise Goldmann)|encyclopedia=Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft: 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert|volume=1|publisher=K. G. Saur|location=Munich|date=2002|isbn=3-598-11545-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QnrPXZ_eT44C&pg=PA300 | language=de | page=300}}

{{cite encyclopedia|editor-first=Herrmann Julius|editor-last=Meyer|editor-link=Herrmann Julius Meyer|title=Echegaray, José|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FlwWAAAAYAAJ/page/n391/|page=348|encyclopedia=Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon|volume=5|date=1903|location=Leipzig and Vienna|publisher=Bibliographisches Institut|lang=de}}

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Category:1858 births

Category:1914 deaths

Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism

Category:Spanish–German translators

Category:Translators from Catalan

Category:French–German translators

Category:German Jews

Category:Writers from Sombor

Category:Writers from Cologne

Category:19th-century German women writers

Category:19th-century German writers

Category:19th-century translators