Marie von Augustin

Marie von Augustin (born Marie Regelsberg von Thurnberg: 23 December 1810 – 13 February 1886) was an Austro-Hungary painter and writer. Some of her written work was published under her pseudonym, Marie von Thurnberg.

Biography Marie Regelsberg von Thurnberg was born in Werschetz (as Vršac was known at that time) in the Austro-Hungarian empire, north of Belgrade and south-east of Budapest. (Today it is in north-eastern Serbia). By the time she was five the family had already moved to Vienna. Her father, Oberstleutnant Regelsberg von Thurnberg, was a career soldier, serving in the Imperial Austrian Army. Her mother came originally from the Transylvanian Saxon community of ethnic Germans who had been colonising Transylvania since the twelfth century. It was from her mother that she acquired her love of painting and literature, along with a sound education: she was devastated by her mother's death, after a long illness, at a time when she herself was still only eighteen. She also engaged actively in the emerging women's rights movement.

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