Luise Fastenrath

Luise Fastenrath (née Goldmann; 10 March 1858 – 28 March 1914), also known by the pen name Luise von Asten, was a Hungarian-born writer and translator.

Luise Fastenrath
Fastenrath in 1890
Born	Luise Goldmann (1858-03-10)10 March 1858 Zombor, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	28 March 1914(1914-03-28) (aged 56) Cologne, Prussia, German Empire
Pen name	Luise von Asten
Spouse	Johannes Fastenrath ​ ​ (m. 1883; died 1908)​

She was born to a Jewish family in Zombor, the younger sister of Anna Forstenheim. In 1883, she converted to Catholicism and married writer Johannes Fastenrath at the Augustinian Church in Vienna.^[1] She founded the Fastenrath Foundation soon after her husband's death in 1908.^[2]

Fastenrath translated numerous works into German from Spanish, Catalan, and French,^[3] including José Echegaray's drama Vida alegre y muerte triste.^[4]