Auguste Schmidt

She was the daughter of Prussian army artillery lieutenant Friedrich Schmidt and his wife Emilie (born Schöps).

[1] From 1862, she was teacher of literature and aesthetics at one of Ottilie von Steyber's (1804–1870) Mädchenbildungsinstitut (Girls Educational Institutes).

Schmidt and Otto-Peters served jointly as president and edited the house organ, Neue Bahnen ("New Paths").

[3] She published two novels in 1868, Tausendschön (Daisies) and Veilchen (Violets), a short story, Aus schwerer Zeit (From Hard Times), came out in 1895.

In 2003, a 14m long plaque was attached to the house in which she lived between 1863 and 1864 at Lortzingstraße 5, Leipzig, to commemorate her life.