1. Rosa Ludmilla Assing was a German writer, who wrote under the pseudonyms Achim Lothar and Talora.
10 Facts About Ludmilla Assing
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Ludmilla Assing was the second daughter of author Rosa Maria Varnhagen and David Assur Assing, a physician from Konigsberg.
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Ludmilla Assing's elder sister Ottilie Assing was a feminist author and abolitionist activist.
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On her uncle's death in 1858 Ludmilla Assing inherited his collection of documents.
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Ludmilla Assing prepared the scandalous letters of Alexander von Humboldt for publication in 1869 and Varnhagen's diaries which appeared in print from 1862 to 1870 in 14 volumes.
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Ludmilla Assing fled to Florence in Italy and continued her activities as an author and editor.
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Ludmilla Assing joined the left wing of the Risorgimento movement to unify Italy and wrote about politics in Italian and German for periodicals in each country as well as translating Italian texts into German.
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Ludmilla Assing's friends included Ferdinand Lassalle, Georg and Emma Herwegh, Hedwig Dohm and Hermann, Furst von Puckler-Muskau.
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Ludmilla Assing died of meningitis in a Florence hospital in 1880.
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Ludmilla Assing married 25 year old Italian Bersaglieri lieutenant Cino Grimelli in 1874 leading her to be credited as Ludmilla Assing-Grimelli in later published works.