Philippine Engelhard

Johann Heinrich Tischbein - Philippine Engelhard

Philippine Engelhard (21 October 1756 – 28 September 1831), was a German poet. She was one of the so-called Universitätsmamsellen, a group of five academically active women during the 18th-and 19th century, daughters of academics on Göttingen University, alongside Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, Caroline Schelling, Therese Huber, and Dorothea Schlözer.

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• Eckart Kleßmann: Universitätsmamsellen : fünf aufgeklärte Frauen zwischen Rokoko, Revolution und Romantik. Die Andere Bibliothek Bd. 281. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-4588-3