Maria Treben née Günzel (27 September 1907, in Žatec, Bohemia – 26 July 1991, in Grieskirchen, Austria) was an Austrian writer and herbalist who came to fame in the 1980s for her books.
Treben was born in 1907 in Žatec, Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary, the middle of three daughters of the owner of a printing shop who died when she was 10.
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, she and her husband Ernst Gottfried Treben were victims of the Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia.
Treben addressed seminars and presented at natural health conferences in Germany, Austria and across Europe, attracting hundreds of people.
She commonly used Thyme, Greater Celandine, Ramsons, Speedwell, Calamus, Camomile, Nettle and Lady's Mantle.