About Ellen Frothingham
Lived 1835 – 1902 (aged 66–67). Ellen Frothingham was an American translator.
Ellen Frothingham (25 March 1835 – 1902) worked in the United States as a translator of German-language works into English.
Biography She was born in Boston, the daughter of Nathaniel Frothingham. She studied German literature and was well known for her translations into English of Lessing's Nathan der Weise (Kuno Fischer's edition; New York, 1868), Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea (1870), Berthold Auerbach's Edelweiss (1871), Lessing's Laokoon (1874), and Franz Grillparzer's Sappho (1876).
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American translator (1835 – 1902)
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Ellen Frothingham was born on 25 March 1835.
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Ellen Frothingham died in 1902.
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Ellen Frothingham was a translator.
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