Jenny Weleminsky

Jenny Weleminsky, nee Elbogen (12 June 1882–4 February 1957), was a German-speaking Esperantist and translator who lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia and Thalheim, Lower Austria. Some of her works were published in the literary magazine Literatura Mondo ("World of Literature"), which became home to an influential group of authors who came to be collectively known as the Budapest School of Esperanto literature.

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She was born into a Jewish family on 12 June 1882 at Schloss Thalheim, Lower Austria, the daughter of Guido Elbogen (1845, Jungbrunzlau – 1918, Schloss Thalheim) who was a banker in Vienna, and his wife Rosalie (nee Schwabacher; 1850, Paris – 1940, Sartrouville).

She inherited Schloss Thalheim from her father and lived there and in Prague with her husband Friedrich ("Fritz") Weleminsky (1868, Golcuv Jenikov – 1945, London). He was a lecturer in Hygiene (now called Microbiology) at the German University, Prague and developed tuberculomucin, a treatment for tuberculosis.

Facing Nazi persecution for being Jewish, they found sanctuary in 1939 in Britain where she continued to translate books into Esperanto, wrote poetry and taught English to other refugees.

They had four children together; two emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s and two came to Britain. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren now live in Britain, Israel, Australia, Sweden and Germany.

She died, aged 75, on 4 February 1957 in London, England.