Agnes Franz

Born: 8 February 1794, Poland
Died: 13 May 1843
Country most active: Poland, Germany
Also known as: Louise Antoinette Eleonore Konstanze Agnes Franzky

The following is excerpted from A Cyclopædia of Female Biography, published 1857 by Groomsbridge and Sons and edited by Henry Gardiner Adams.

Born at Militsch, in Silesia, in 1795, was the daughter of the government councillor, L. Franz. She passed her youth at Schweidnitz, where she wrote the greater number of her fugitive pieces. Her poems were first published in 1826; her Parables were published at Wesel in 1829; Flowers that Pass, at Essen in 1833. Her collected works were published in 1824 at Breslan, under the title of “Glycerion;” and under that of “Cyanen” in 1838, at Essen. In 1834, she edited a portfolio on the Lower Rhine.

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