Stockfleth, Maria Katharina (c. 1633–1692)

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Stockfleth, Maria Katharina (c. 1633–1692)

German poet and novelist. Name variations: Maria Catharina Stockfleth. Born c. 1633 in Nuremberg, Germany; died 1692; m. 2nd husband Heinrich Arnold Stockfleth (1643–1708, theologian and poet), 1669.

Wrote poetry as well as a sequel to her husband's novel, Die Kunst-und Tugendgezierte Macarie (1673), which was recently discovered.

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