Marie Hankel
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| caption = Maria Hankel (photographed by Hugo Erfurth)
| birth_name = Marie Dippe
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1844}}
| birth_place = Schwerin, Germany
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1929|1844}}
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| nationality = German
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| occupation = Writer, translator
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| spouse = Hermann Hankel
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Marie Hankel (1844–1929) was a German writer of Esperanto literature. She is known for founding the Esperantista Literatura Asocio (Esperanto Literature Association) She also advocated for women's suffrage.{{cite book|title=American Esperanto Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jU88AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA66|year=1910|publisher=American Esperantist Company|page=66}} She was married to the German mathematician Hermann Hankel.
Life
Hankel née Dippe was born in 1844 in Schwerin, Germany. In 1905 she learned Esperanto and subsequently wrote poetry and prose in that language. Her titles include La simbolo de l' amo (The symbol of love), Tri unuaktaj komedioj (Three one-act comedies), and Sableroj (Sands).{{cite web |last1=Dressen |first1=Hilda |title=Marie Hankel |url=http://esperanto.net/literaturo/autor/hankel.html |website=Originala Literaturo Esperanta |accessdate=5 August 2019}} In 1909 she participated and won the literary contest Internaciaj Floraj Ludoj (International Floral Games). In 1910 she spoke in support of women's suffrage at the annual World Esperanto Congress in Washington, D.C. In 1911 she founded and became the first president of the Esperantista Literatura Asocio (Esperanto Literature Association) at that year's World Esperanto Congress in Antwerp.{{cite book |last1=Sutton |first1=Geoffrey |title=Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, 1887-2007 |date=2008 |publisher=Mondial |isbn=9781595690906 |pages=52–53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Z_8CG9g2jIC&q=Marie+Hankel&pg=PA53 |language=en}}
Legacy
In 2003 a street in the Laubegast district in Dresden was named in her honor.
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