Erika von Erhardt-Siebold

Erika Helena Henrietta Wanda Freifrau von Siebold Her father Alexander von Siebold was a translator and interpreter and his paternal grandfather Philipp Franz von Siebold was a physician and botanist. After studying at the University of Cambridge and getting a PhD at Heidelberg University in 1918, she began work as a lecturer in English in Germany and Russia, working at the University of Dorpat, University of Freiburg, University of Rostock, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

In 1925, after spending a year at Bryn Mawr College (1924–1925) on a European Fellowship, von Erhardt-Siebold started working as an Associate Professor of French at Wittenberg College.

As an academic, she specialized "in the fields of Old and Middle English and Romanticism", especially Anglo-Saxon riddles, having published a German-language book on the subject in 1925. In 1940, as part of Vassar's 75th anniversary, she and her husband Rudolf published 'The Astronomy of Scotus Erigena and Cosmology in the Annotationes in Marcianum, both of which were about the studies of John Scotus Eriugena. In January 1942, her lecture "Archaeological Riddles of Anglo-Saxon England" took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At some point before 1942, she was an American Association of University Women fellow.