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Hermynia zur muhlen biography of martin
Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Austrian writer and translator
Hermynia Zur Mühlen (12 December 1883 – 20 March 1951), or Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet, was an Austrian writer and translator.
She translated over seventy books into German from English, Russian and French, including work by Upton Sinclair, John Galsworthy, Jerome K. Jerome, Harold Nicolson, Max Eastman and Edna Ferber.[1] She has been characterised as "one of the best known women writers of the Weimar Republic."[2] A committed socialist from a Viennese aristocratic Catholic family, she was sometimes called the Red Countess.
Life
The Countess Folliot de Crenneville, born as Hermine Isabelle Maria Gräfin Folliot de Crenneville in Vienna, was the great granddaughter of Louis Charles Folliot de Crenneville, a French-born general who fought for the Habsburg monarchy in the Napoleonic Wars.
Her paternal grandfather was Franz Folliot de Crenneville, Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece. H