Auguste Groner (née Kopallik; 16 April 1850 − 7 March 1929), was an Austrian writer internationally notable for detective fiction.

She also published under the pseudonyms Olaf Björnson, A. of the Paura, Renorga, and Metis.

[1] Auguste Groner was born in Vienna in 1850, the daughter of an accountant.

In 1879 she married Richard Groner, a journalist and lexicographer.

[1] Around 1890, she turned to crime fiction, creating the first serial police detective in German crime literature, Joseph Müller, who appears for the first time in the novella The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow, which was published in 1890.