Glückel of Hameln is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Glückel of Hameln as German writer and businesswoman.
Glückel of Hameln was born at Hamburg in 1646. Her recorded nationality is Germany.
This was a period of expanding print and contested censorship, when writing became a public act with consequences.
She worked as autobiographer, diarist and writer.
Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
That the work was written from Germany matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Glückel of Hameln died in 1724, aged 78. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
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