Rahel Varnhagen
German writer
Died when: 61 years 292 days (741 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Rahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen (German: [ˈʁaːɛl ˈfaʁnhaːɡən]) (née Levin, later Robert; 19 May 1771 – 7 March 1833) was a German writer who hosted one of the most prominent salons in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
She is the subject of a celebrated biography, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess (1957), written by Hannah Arendt.Arendt cherished Varnhagen as her "closest friend, though she ha[d] been dead for some hundred years".
The asteroid 100029 Varnhagen is named in her honour.
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