Luise von Ploennies
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Luise von Ploennies was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 poet born at Hanau
Hanau
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, the daughter of the naturalist Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler
Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler
Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler was a German naturalist.Leisler named a number of birds, including the Temminck's Stint which he named after his friend Coenraad Jacob Temminck. He is commemorated in Leisler's Bat Nyctalus leisleri, first described by Heinrich Kuhl.His daughter, Luise von...

. In 1824 she married the physician August von Ploennies in Darmstadt
Darmstadt
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. After his death in 1847 she resided for some years in Belgium
Belgium
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, then at Jugenheim on the Bergstrasse, and finally at Darmstadt, where she died. Between 1844 and 1870 she published several volumes of verse, being particularly happy in eclectic love songs, patriotic poems and descriptions of scenery. She also wrote two biblical dramas, Maria Magdalena (1870) and David (1873).

As a translator from the English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, Luise von Ploennies published two collections of poems, Britannia (1843) and Englische Lyriker des 19ten Jahrhunderts (1863, 3rd ed., 1867).
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