The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Hillern, Wilhelmine von

HILLERN, Wilhelmine von, German authoress: b. Munich, 11 March 1836. She is the daughter of a well-known novelist, Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. She was brought up in Berlin, became an actress at Gotha (1854), and married the prominent jurist von Hillern at Freiburg in Breisgau in 1857. Her husband died 8 Dec. 1882. She has since been living chiefly at Oberammergau and Tutzing. Her principal novels and short stories were produced during the 60's and 70's of the last century. One of them, &lsquo;Höher als die Kirche&rsquo; (1877) is quite well known in America by reason of the fact that it is frequently read as a text by students of elementary German. It is a comparatively insignificant work, however, by no means so important as the novels, &lsquo;Ein Arzt der Seele&rsquo; (Berlin 1869), &lsquo;Die Geyer-Wally&rsquo; (Berlin 1875) and &lsquo;Und sie kommt doch&rsquo; (Berlin 1879).