Therese Albertine Luise Robinson

Therese Albertine Luise Robinson (Talvj)
BornTherese Albertine Louise von Jakob
(French: Thérèse Albertine Louise von Jacob, under Napoleonic occupation.)
(1797-01-26)26 January 1797
Halle, Germany
Died13 April 1870(1870-04-13) (aged 73)
Hamburg, Germany
Pen nameTalvj
Occupation
  • Translator
  • novelist
  • short story writer
  • essayist
Period1826–1870
GenreTranslated poetry, Novella
Notable worksVolkslieder der Serben (1826), Auswanderer (1852) tr. The Exile (1853)

Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob Robinson (26 January 1797 – 13 April 1870) was a German-American author, linguist and translator, and second wife of biblical scholar Edward Robinson.[1] She published under the pseudonym Talvj, an acronym derived from the initials of her birth name.

The author wrote a brief autobiographical preface in the Brockhausischen Conversations-Lexikon (1840).[2] For a complete English biography of her life and work, see Irma Elizabeth Voigt (1913).[3]

  1. ^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1919). "Robinson, Theresa Albertine Louise von Jakob". Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 23. p. 583.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference voigt029-031 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Voigt 1913a