Bertha Katscher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bertha Katscher

Slovak-born Hungarian writer

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1860

Place of Birth: Trenčín, Trenčín Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 16-Sep-1903

Profession: translator, journalist, children's writer

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Bertha Katscher

  • Bertha Katscher (also spelled, Berta; pseudonyms: Ludwig Ungar, Albert Kellner, Ludwig Kölle, Ludmilla Kölle; 12 June 1860 – 16 September 1903) was a Slovak-born Hungarian writer. Katscher was born at Trencín, Slovakia, June 12, 1860, to an affluent Jewish family.
  • She was educated by her aunt, by whom she was taken to Herzegovina, where in 1881 she was married to her cousin, Leopold Katscher, the writer and peace activist.
  • Up to this time she had been occupied mostly with household affairs, but at the wish of her husband, she embarked on a literary career.
  • Her first attempts were fairy-tales for children, but she soon turned her efforts to the advocacy of universal peace and various economic reforms.
  • She wrote also against cruelty to animals.
  • She contributed articles on a great variety of subjects to the “Frankfurter Zeitung,” the “Wiener Mode,” “Die Heimat,” “Münchener Allgemeine Zeitung,” “Kölnische Zeitung,” “Prochaska's Monatsbände,” etc.
  • Her first work in book form was “Die Kunst ein Mensch zu Sein,” written in 1887 with Edward John Hardy.
  • Her other works included: “Weinachtsgeschichte” (1890); “Aus Bädern und Sommerfrischen” (1890); “Hermann Vámbérys Leben und Reiseabenteuer” (1892); “Soldatenkinder,” a romance of universal peace (1897); “Die Studentin" (1900); and “Der Stychoos” (1901).
  • She also translated English literature into German, such as the novels by Hardy, Donnelly, Boyesen, Meadows, Stevenson, and Buckley.Katscher had been operated upon twice for cancer of the right breast.
  • Shortly after the second operation, she consulted, for blindness of the left eye, Dr.
  • Wilhelm Goldzieher, of Budapest, who sent her to Dr.
  • Adamkiewicz with a diagnosis of cancerous infiltration of the choroid and partial detachment of the retina.
  • This diagnosis was confirmed by Dr.
  • Sachs, assistant in the ophthalmological clinic of the University of Vienna.
  • Sachs also followed up his ophthalmoscopic examinations during the treatment by cancroine, and certified to actual resorption of a cancerous process and restoration of vision to two thirds of normal.
  • The conditions in the breast cicatrix were also improved.The feminist and pacifist, Rosika Schwimmer, was her daughter.
  • Katscher died in Budapest in 1903.

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