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FormatBook Whole
Author, MonographicVoigt, Anna
Title, MonographicVergissmeinnicht! Ein Strauss geistlicher Gedankenbluethen
Place of PublicationChicago
PublisherNorth American Publishing Co.
Date of Publication1896
Extent of Work2 unnumbered pages, 348 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 20 cm
OCLC84395943
AbstractPoems are grouped into sections: Vaterlands-Lieder (includes poems about both Germany and America), Feld und Wald, Herbst-Lieder, Lenz-Lieder, Winter-Lieder, Abendgedanken, Nachtgedanken, Das Dasein Gottes, Glaube und Zuversicht, Klage und Trost, Vergaenglichkeit, Unsterblichkeit, An den Graebern, Im Krankheit und Heimsuchung, Auf der Reise des Lebens, and Vermischten Inhalts.
NotesOn title page: von Frau Anna Voigt, aus Plymouth, Wisconsin; on title page verso: Entered according to Act of Congress, 1895, by Anna Voigt, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington; German-American author.

From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Born in Thueringen. Had only a grade school education, grew up in poverty. Emig. to Plymouth, Wis. Her poems are chiefly religious.
MKI AnnotationTwo copies. One repaired by GLS Conservation Lab, 2024.
Second copy donated by Prof. David M. Gosdeck, Martin Luther College Library, New Ulm, MN. On title page of second copy the death date 1914 is written. Online research indicates Anna Voigt was born about 1827 in Saxe Meimar and died either 1914 or 1915.
Donated bySheboygan County Historical Research Cente
Call NumberPIA IL
MKI TermsWomen poets -- Wisconsin/ Poetry, German-American