Monika Adele Elisabeth Hunnius (14 July 1858[1][2] - 30 December 1934) was a German-Baltic writer, one of the most famous German authors of the Baltic states in the 20th century.
Her cousin Johannes Hesse [de], the father of the famous writer and Nobel Prize winner, she nevertheless only met him in Germany much later.
[4] From 1904 to 1911, Hunnius supported Raimund von Zur Mühlen in conducting singing courses in Viljandi (Fellin) and later in East Prussia Neuhäuser on the Baltic Sea near Pillau (today Baltijsk).
[5] In the last years of her life, the artist in need of care lived in the family of Ernst Gurland, the headmaster of the municipal German grammar school in Riga.
He also won a particularly talented pupil, Gertrud Schettler, to write handwritten dictations for the increasingly frail woman.