Dina Alma de Paradeda

Dina Alma de Paradeda, usually known simply as Alma de Paradeda (1871 – 8 December 1906, age 35, Breslau), was a Brazilian socialite, known for the circumstances of her death (poisoning herself in front of a doctor, who, after examining the body, revealed she was physically male) and subsequent media interest in the story; the numerous testimonies of it made her one of the first documented and known by name transgender women either of South American origin or living in Central-Eastern Europe.

Early life Paradeda was born in 1871 as Alfred (or Alfredo) H., to a Brazilian woman, and probably a Spanish consul, and a count from Rio de Janeiro, and had at least one brother.

Europe Between 1899 and 1900, Paradeda was already a prominent figure of Berlin urning balls. During one of them in 1903, she met Magnus Hirschfeld, who later described the meeting several times in his writings. He mentioned her wearing a Parisian red silk evening dress, with laces worth more than 2000 franks. She was also supposed to be a good conversationalist who stoked interest with her stories from Brazil or Paris, dispelling any initial doubt or distrust caused by her height or low voice. On 28 October 1906, Paradeda left Paris and moved to Breslau as Töpfer's fiancée, meeting his friends and family and renting a new apartment. and Poverty Bay Herald in New Zealand. who claimed to be the landlord and to tell the true story, and the fictionalized, loosely inspired by the real events Tagebuch einer männlichen Braut (Diary of a male bride). Röhmer's book resembles newspaper articles in fragments, which makes her claims to be the landlord debatable.