Eugenie Hirschberg-Pucher

Eugenie Hirschberg-Pucher (1862 – 30 April 1937) was a Latvian poet and writer. Most of her work was published in the Latvian German-language press in the early 1900s.

Biography Eugenie Pucher was born in Mitau, Courland, to Rabbi Solomon Pucher and his wife Rosa. She married ophthalmologist Wilhelm (Wulff) Hirschberg in 1887. They lived in Vitebsk, Kharkov, and the Yekaterinoslav Governorate before settling permanently in Riga in 1911. There she operated a salon for local writers and artists.

She made her literary debut in 1886 with the poetry collection Schülerliebe. In 1896 she anonymously published the story Ihre Kreutzersonate, which was met with acclaim.

Publications

Translated into Dutch as Hare Kreutzersonate. Uit het dagboek van Mevrouw Posdnischew. Translation of a poem by Simon Frug.