11 Facts About Helen Zimmern

Helen Zimmern was a naturalised British writer and translator born in Germany.

Helen Zimmern was instrumental in making European culture more accessible in English.

Helen Zimmern was naturalised on coming of age, as one of the three daughters of the merchant Hermann Theodore Zimmern and his wife Antonia Marie Therese Regina Zimmern.

Helen Zimmern's sister was the suffragist Alice Zimmern; the political scientist Alfred Eckhard Zimmern was a cousin.

Helen Zimmern's first appearance in print was a story for Once a Week.

Helen Zimmern was writing for the Argosy and other magazines.

In 1873 Helen Zimmern began writing critical articles, particularly on German literature, for the Examiner.

Helen Zimmern wrote for Fraser's Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine, the Athenaeum, the Spectator, St James's, Pall Mall Magazine, the World of Art, the Italian La Rassegna Settimanale and various German papers.

Helen Zimmern lectured on Italian art in Britain and Germany, and translated Italian drama, fiction and history.

Helen Zimmern befriended Friedrich Nietzsche, two of whose books she would later translate, after meeting him in Sils Maria, Switzerland, in the summer of 1886.

Helen Zimmern published her memories of Nietzsche in an anonymous article, entitled "Memories of N", and she was the first person to translate Beyond Good and Evil into English.