Bacheracht, Therese von (1804–1852)

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Bacheracht, Therese von (1804–1852)

German novelist and travel writer. Born in 1804; died in 1852; daughter of a diplomat; married a Russian consul; later became lover of the writer Karl Gutzkow.

Therese von Bacheracht, distinguished for her expert depiction of character, wrote of the upper classes. Contemporaries considered her best novels to be Falkenberg (1843), Lydia (1844) and Heinrich Burkart (1846). At the urging of her lover, writer Karl Gutzkow, she also published her diaries and letters concerning her travels to Russia and the Far East: Briefe aus dem Süden (Letters from the South, 1841) and Menschen und Gegenden (People and Places, 1845). She is credited for publishing Wilhelm von Humboldt's Letters to a Friend (1847).

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