Kathinka Zitz-Halein

[1] On June 3, 1837, she married a distant relative, the prominent Mainz attorney and 1848 revolutionary Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz.

[2] She wrote for the Mannheimer Abendzeitung, opposing censorship and calling for reform in marriage, divorce and guardianship laws.

In the German revolutions of 1848–49 she founded and was first president of the Humania Association, the largest revolutionary women's organization.

A prolific short story writer, in the 1860s she wrote fictionalized biographical novels of Goethe, Heine, Rahel Varnhagen and Byron.

[1]: 1384–1385 [3] Kathinka Zitz-Halein's published works as cited by An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers.