Kathinka Zitz-Halein
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Kathinka Zitz was a German writer. Her maiden name was Halein. On June 3, 1837, she married a distant relative, the prominent Mainz
attorney, and 1848 revolutionary
, Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz
. They lived together for two years.
Mainz
Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
attorney, and 1848 revolutionary
Revolutions of 1848
The European Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, Springtime of the Peoples or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848. It was the first Europe-wide collapse of traditional authority, but within a year reactionary...
, Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz
Franz Heinrich Zitz
Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz was a prominent Mainz attorney and enjoyed much success with women due to his comeliness. He was a restless and at times dissolute man. On June 3, 1837, he married the writer Katharina Theresa Halein, not completely of his own free will, but under threat of suicide...
. They lived together for two years.
Literature
- Stanley Zucker: Kathinka Zitz-Halein and female civic activism in mid-nineteenth-century Germany. Southern Illinois Univ. Press 1991, ISBN 0809316749.
- Ludwig Julius Fränkel, “Zitz, Katharina und Franz” in Allgemeine Deutsche BiographieAllgemeine Deutsche BiographieAllgemeine Deutsche Biographie is one of the most important and most comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language....
, Band 45 (Leipzig, 1900), S. 373-378. - Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature