Elise Reimarus

Elise Reimarus (22 January 1735, Hamburg, as Margaretha Elisabeth Reimarus – 2 September 1805, Hamburg) was a German writer, educator, translator and salon-holder.

Elise Reimarus was known as one of the most erudite women of Hamburg and she was in epistolary contact with notable intellectuals of her time, including Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Carl Leonhard Reinhold.

She was also a personal friend of fellow-educationist Caroline Rudolphi.

Reimarus published translations from the English and French, besides a number of original works.

Despite receiving numerous proposals, she remained unmarried.