Johanna Kinkel

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Johanna Kinkel

Johanna Kinkel (born 8 July 1810 in Bonn; died 15 November 1858 in London) was a German composer, writer, and revolutionary. Her second marriage was to the German poet Gottfried Kinkel. Following the 1848 Revolutions she was forced to abandon Germany and flee to London. She was found dead in her garden in 1858 from a fall; although suicide was suspected, there was no way to verify this. Her tombstone was inscribed Freiheit, Liebe und Dichtung (meaning Freedom, Love, and Poetry).

An autobiographical novel about her life, Hans Ibeles in London, was published posthumously.

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