Alix von Cotta

Alix von Cotta (1842 – December 1931) was a UK promoter of women's education in Germany. She was the second principal of the Victoria Lyceum in Berlin.

Life Cotta was born in Braunschweig in 1842 to Carl Berhard von Cotta and Ilsabe Ida von Orges. She and her two sisters spoke English and her father was a professor of geology. Cotta was fluent in several languages and she corresponded with Penelope Lawrence who, like Cotta, was to be a leader in education. Lawrence and Cotta were educated together at Newnham College in Cambridge. Cotta studied French, German, English and Old English.

Cotta continued to write to Penelope Lawrence every few weeks. In July 1930 she wrote a brief note to "Nelly" explaining that she was too weak to write a letter she finishing with "Goodbye old friend". Sixty years of her letters to Lawrence are available at the University of London. She died in Hanover in 1931.