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5 unusual facts about Elisabeth Jungmann


Beerbohm

Elisabeth Jungmann, Lady Beerbohm (1894–1958), interpreter and the secretary, literary executor

Elisabeth Jungmann

Jungmann once told Beerbohm how she would have liked to have met Isaac Newton, famous for his Law of Gravity.

She immediately travelled out to his villa in Rapallo where she took care of the funeral arrangements.

A German Jewess, born in Lublinitz in Upper Silesia, the daughter of Adolf and Agnes Jungmann and the sister of Otto Jungmann and sociologist and historian Eva Gabriele Reichmann, she served as a nurse for the German army during World War I.

Jungmann had been a friend of the Beerbohms since 1927 when she had translated at a meeting between Beerbohm and Hauptmann, who wintered in Rapallo in Italy.



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