Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916), born Dubsky at the castle of Zdislavice, in Moravia, lost her mother early and was educated by two stepmothers. In 1848 she married her cousin Moritz, fifteen years her senior, a professor of physics and chemistry at the academy of military engineers and later an officer. For nearly twenty years her dramas failed; she turned to prose, trained in watchmaking in 1879 and published her first aphorisms in 1880. In 1900 she became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna.

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