Agnes Taubert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Agnes Taubert

German author

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1844

Place of Birth: Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Date of Death: 08-May-1877

Profession: writer, author

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Agnes Taubert (married name, Agnes Taubert Hartmann, born January 7, 1844 in Stralsund, † May 8, 1877 in Berlin) was a German writer and philosopher. In 1872 Taubert married the philosopher Eduard von Hartmann in Berlin-Charlottenburg and had a daughter with him.
She was a staunch defender of her husband's work The Philosophy of the Unconcious (1869) and wrote two books which both critiqued and defended his ideas.
Her work Der Pessimismus und seine Gegner (1873) was a major influence on the pessimism controversy in Germany.
She has been described as "one of the first women to have a prominent role in a public intellectual debate in Germany."She died in 1877, of "an attack of a rheumatism of the joints".