Ploennies, Luise von (1803–1872)
Ploennies, Luise von (1803–1872)
German poet. Name variations: Plönnies. Born in Hanau, Germany, on November 7, 1803; died in Darmstadt on January 22, 1872; daughter of Philipp Achilles Leisler (a naturalist); married August von Ploennies (a physician), in 1824.
Luise von Ploennies was born in Hanau, Germany, in 1803, the daughter of naturalist Philipp Leisler. In 1824, she married physician August von Ploennies in Darmstadt. After his death in 1847, she lived in Belgium for some years, then at Jugenheim on the Bergstrasse, and lastly at Darmstadt, where she died on January 22, 1872. Between 1844 and 1870, she published several volumes of verse. She also wrote two Biblical dramas, Maria Magdalena (1870) and David (1873). She also translated into German two collections of English poems, Britannia (1843) and Englische Lyriker des 19ten Jahrhunderts (1863, 3rd ed., 1867).