Auguste von Littrow, née von Bischoff-Altenstein (13 February 1819, Prague

Prague

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 - 23 March 1890, Vienna

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) was a German-Austrian author and women's movement leader.

She was the daughter of the physician Professor Ignaz von Bischoff-Altenstein. Shortly after her 20th birthday, in 1839, she married astronomer Karl Ludwig von Littrow and settled in Vienna. Rapidly the Littrow household developed to an in meeting place of the Viennese society. There Hermann Bonitz

Hermann Bonitz

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, Josef Danhauser

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, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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, August Eisenmenger, Ernst von Feuchtersleben, Ottilie von Goethe, Franz Grillparzer

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, Friedrich Hebbel, Rudolf von Jhering

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, Joseph Lewinsky, Franz Miklosich

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 all met.

Asteroid

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 254 Augusta

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 is named in her honour.

Books by Auguste von Littrow

• Aus dem persönlichen Verkehren mit Franz Grillparzer. Rosner Verlag, Wien 1873.
• Die Krankenpflege durch Frauen mit Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Verhältnisse. Verlag Czermak, Wien 1872.
• Die sociale Bewegung auf dem Gebiete der Frauen. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1868.