Amalie Schoppe

She is most notable as the author of books for children and young people, with an oeuvre totaling 200 volumes.

The Amalie-Schoppe-Weg in the Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord district of Hamburg and the Amalie-Schoppe-Straße in Burg auf Fehmarn are named after her.

After her husband's death she provided for her family by her prolific writing, as well as occasionally running a girls' reformatory alongside Fanny Tarnow.

Her friends included Rosa Maria Assing, Justinus Kerner and Adelbert von Chamisso, along with the young poet Friedrich Hebbel, whom she introduced to patrons and allowed to use her study.

From 1842 to 1845 she lived in Jena, before moving back to Hamburg and finally in 1851 to the United States of America with her son, where she died aged 66 in Schenectady, New York