Louisa Siefert
Louisa Siefert (1845 – October 1877) was a best-selling 19th century French poet. The daughter of Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne Belz, she was born and grew up in Lyon. Her first book of poems Rayons perdus was published in December 1868; the first edition sold out quickly and two more editions appeared by April 1869.
Louisa Siefert
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- Name
- Louisa Siefert
- Born
- 1845
- Birthplace
- Lyon, France
- Died
- October 1877
- Place of death
- Pau, France
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- French
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Louisa Siefert (1845 – October 1877) was a best-selling 19th century French poet. The daughter of Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne Belz, she was born and grew up in Lyon. Her first book of poems Rayons perdus was published in December 1868; the first edition sold out quickly and two more editions appeared by April 1869.
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She wrote a literary column for the Journal de Lyon. In 1876, she married Jocelyn Pene, Emilio Castelar's secretary. Siefert suffered from migraines and severe arthritis during her short life and died of tuberculosis in Pau at the age of 32. Her work was included in the second volume of Le Parnasse contemporain. Her poetry was viewed favorably by Rimbaud. In Un poète oublié, Lucien Scheler described Siefert's life as "une vie illuminé par la beauté du verbe" (a life illuminated by the beauty of the verb).
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Key facts
• Name — Louisa Siefert • Born — 1845 • Birthplace — Lyon, France • Died — October 1877 • Place of death — Pau, France • Genre — poetry
Selected works
Selected works
Source: • L'Année républicaine, poetry (1869) • Les Stoïques, poetry (1870) • Les Saintes Colères, poetry (1871) • Comédies romanesques, play in verse (1872) • Méline, novel (1875) • Souvenirs, Poésies inédites, poetry (1881)
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Louisa Siefert is recorded as poet and writer.
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1845
Louisa Siefert born at Lyon.
1877
Louisa Siefert died at Pau.
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scholarly publication
- 6 The Poetic Edges of Dualism in Louisa Siefert, Genius Envy, 2017
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2017
- Tragique et stoïcisme dans Rayons perdus de Louisa Siefert, Masculin / Féminin dans la poésie et les poétiques du xixe siècle, 2002
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2002
- Un poète oublié, Louisa Siefert, Bulletin du bibliophile, 1992
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1992
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1334189072, Louisa Siefert (Lyon 1845 - Pau 1877) (Veranstaltung : 2021 : Online).
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
- VIAF cluster 9886215 for Louisa Siefert, aggregating national library name authorities.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1872125: Louisa Siefert
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- “Louisa Siefert”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Literature
Literature
Literature
Imitation and Romantic Melancholy, Uncanonical Women, 1999
Du manuscrit à la postérité: Louisa Siefert et les médias littéraires du XIXe siècle, Çédille, 2026
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- 1.Adrianna Paliyenko. Siefert, Louisa [Lyon 1845 - Pau 1877]. Dictionnaire universel des créatrices. Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque et Mireille Calle-Gruber (dir.). Éditions Des femmes. 2013. 3989.
- 2.Bernard Poche, Une culture autre : la littérature à Lyon (1890-1914), L’Harmattan, 2010 ; collectif, Visages du Lyonnais, Paris, Éditions des Horizons de France, 1952.
- 3.Tragique et stoïcisme dans Rayons perdus de Louisa Siefert. Lucette Czyba. Christine Planté (dir.). Masculin / Féminin dans la poésie et les poétiques du xixe siècle. Presses universitaires de Lyon. 2002. 317-327.
- 4.Victor Hugo possédait dans sa bibliothèque de Hauteville House les trois recueils de poésies de Louisa Siefert.
- 5.Paul Mariéton. Joséphin Soulary et la Pléiade lyonnaise. C. Marpon et E. Flammarion. 1884.
- 6.Recueil des Actes Administratifs n° 2019-01– Période du 1er avril au 30 juin 2019. Délibération n°2019-31 – Dénomination de la bibliothèque /espace culturel. Commune de Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or. 2019.
- 7.L’espace culturel Louisa Siefert inauguré !. St-Cyr-Mont-d’Or.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- G. E. (= Georges Eekhoud), Les œuvres de M lle Louisa Sieffert [sic pour Siefert], in Le Précurseur. Journal Politique, Commercial, Maritime, Artistique et Littéraire, Anvers, année, n° 241, , pp. 1–2.
- Pierre Brunel, « Rimbaud et Louisa Siefert », dans Studi in onore di Mario Matucci, Pisa, Pacini, 1993, , .
- Jean Butin, « Louisa Siefert », dans Ces Lyonnaises qui ont marqué leur temps, Lyon, Éd. Lyonnaise Art et Histoire, 2004, . .
- Wendy Nicholas Greenberg, Uncanonical Women Feminine Voice in French Poetry, Rodopi, coll. « Chiasma », Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 1999, , chap. III (« Louisa Siefert : Imitation and Romantic Melancholy »), .
- Okabe Kyoko, « Une poétesse oubliée Louisa Siefert : à travers la lecture de Rimbaud », Gakushuin University studies in Humanities, 15, 2006, .
- Lucien Scheler, « Un poète oublié, Louisa Siefert », Bulletin du Bibliophile, , Paris, 1992, .
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scholarly publication
6 The Poetic Edges of Dualism in Louisa Siefert, Genius Envy, 2017Crossref registry
Institutional witnessscholarly publication
Tragique et stoïcisme dans Rayons perdus de Louisa Siefert, Masculin / Féminin dans la poésie et les poétiques du xixe siècle, 2002Crossref registry
Institutional witnessscholarly publication
Un poète oublié, Louisa Siefert, Bulletin du bibliophile, 1992Crossref registry
Institutional witnessauthority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 1334189072, Louisa Siefert (Lyon 1845 - Pau 1877) (Veranstaltung : 2021 : Online).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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