Anna Ritter

Ritter was born Anna Nuhn in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on February 23, 1865, but she was only a young child when her father, an export trader, moved the family to New York City.

In that same year she found employment with the weekly journal, Die Gartenlaube, which had previously published her poetry.

Her most famous poem is "Denkt euch, ich habe das Christkind geseh'n" (I think I saw the Christ Child).

Other authors included the poet "T. Resa," (Gröhe Theresa), zoologist Paul Matschie, Hans Eschelbach, journalist Julius Rodenburg, writer Joseph von Lauff, poet Carl Hermann Busse, and the novelist Gustav Falke, among others.

Composers to set her poems to music include Max Reger, Jean Sibelius, and Kurt Weill, among others.