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Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg

Austrian poet of the Baroque era From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
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Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (7 September 1633, Viehdorf — 10 April 1694, Nuremberg) was an Austrian poet of the Baroque era. Greiffenberg is one of the most significant German-language writers of the early modern era. Her work is regularly profoundly personal, often taking the form of an internal monologue.

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Portrait of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg

Further reading

  • Rochus von Liliencron (1879). "Greiffenberg, Catharina Regina Freifrau von". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 9. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. p. 633.
  • Käte Lorenzen (1966). "Greiffenberg, Catharina Regina Freifrau v.". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 7. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 33–33.
  • Cristina M. Pumplun (2003). "Greiffenberg, Catharina Regina von". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 21. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 540–547. ISBN 3-88309-110-3.
  • Martin Bircher (ed.): Sämtliche Werke in 10 Bänden. Millwood NY 1983
  • Joy A. Schroeder, "The Prenatal Theology of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg.” Lutheran Forum 46/3 (2012):50-56.
  • Lynne Tatlock (ed. and tr.), Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg: Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ (Chicago, 2009) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe).
  • Kathleen Foley-Beining: The Body and Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's "Meditations". Camden House: 1997.
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