Maria Susanne Kübler

Maria Susanna (also Susanne) Kübler (1814–1873) was a Swiss writer who is remembered for her housekeeping guides and cookbooks, especially the popular Das Hauswesen (Housekeeping, 1850) which also contained recipes.

Biography Born on 27 February 1814 in Winterthur, Maria Kübler was the daughter of the teacher Jakob Kübler and the sister of Jakob Kübler (1827–1899), who from 1851 was a clergyman in Neftenbach. In 1834, she married the merchant Jakob Heinrich Haggenmacher. Following their divorce, in 1845 she married Johannes Scherr, a German-born writer, schoolteacher, college professor and political activist. Kübler returned to Winterthur in 1852 and from 1860 lived in Zürich. She worked as a translator, language teacher and writer of household guides and cookbooks. Der Frauenspiegel (1854) Die Hausmutter (1857) Mährchen und Geschichtenbuch der Fee Chrysalinde (children's stories, 1857) Die geschickte Köchin (1858) Das Buch der Mütter (on child care and upbringing, 1867)