Name Valeska Gallwitz | Died 1888 | |
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Valeska von Gallwitz (January 22, 1833 in Glogau; † April 9, 1888) was a German writer.
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Life
Born Agnes Valeska Eugenie von Tempsky from a distinguished noble family, her father Karl Gustav von Tempsky and her brothers were (as were most of their ancestors) officers of the Prussian army. The family originated in Pomerelia in western Prussia and some moved to Silesia some time after 1415, which in 1741 the province itself was ceded to Prussia by the Habsburg Empire during the War of Austrian Succession. Her cousin was the distinguished New Zealand Major Gustavus von Tempsky.
Valeska von Tempsky grew up in Glogau and married August von Gallwitz in 1855 in Jawor (German Jauer). Von Gallwitz († 1914 in Breslau) was squire (or Gutsherr) in the village of Dzierżno near Gliwice. The pair lived in Breslau, Hanover and Berlin.
In 1868 she began to write. Her first novel Editha and other stories was published in 1876 by Münchmeyer-Verlag (publishing house) in Dresden under the pseudonym Eugen Valeski. Another pen name she used was C. Michael.
The Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv (Goethe and Schiller archives) in Weimar has the correspondence of Valeska von Gallwitz with the writer and editor Joseph Kürschner from the years 1877 to 1885.