Henriette Herz

Henriette Julie Herz (née de Lemos) (September 5, 1764 – October 22, 1847) was a German writer, best known for the "salonnieres" or literary salons that she started with a group of emancipated Jews in Prussia.

Henriette Herz had grown up in the Berlin of the Jewish emancipation and had shared tutors apparently with Moses Mendelssohn's daughters.

At age fifteen, she married a physician Markus Herz (1747–1803), seventeen years her senior.

Alexander von Humboldt often visited and even received Hebrew lessons from Henriette.

Her grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof II der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No.