Maria Theresa Asmar

Maria Theresa Asmar was born in 1804, into a Chaldean Catholic family that claimed descent from Christians of Travancore, who had passed through Persia before settling in Baghdad. She undertook to educate the women of her country, travelled in Mesopotamia, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, then reached Europe, where she lived in poverty and was nicknamed the princess of Babylon. She is said to have died in France around 1870, a date that nothing establishes.

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• NarrativeMemoirs of a Babylonian PrincessMaria Theresa Asmar · 1844Literature