Maria Susanna Kübler

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Maria Susanna Kübler

Maria Susanna (also Susanne) Kübler (1814–1873) was a Swiss writer who is remembered for her housekeeping guides and cookbooks, especially the popular Das Hauswesen (Housekeeping, 1850) which also contained recipes. [1] [2]

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Biography

Born on 27 February 1814 in Winterthur, Maria Kübler was the daughter of the teacher Jakob Kübler and the sister of Jakob Kübler (1827–1899), who from 1851 was a clergyman in Neftenbach. In 1834, she married the merchant Jakob Heinrich Haggenmacher. Following their divorce, in 1845 she married Johannes Scherr, a German-born writer, schoolteacher, college professor and political activist. [1]

Kübler studied English, French and Italian at Yverdon in French-speaking Switzerland. In 1845, she moved to Stuttgart, Germany, with her second husband but returned to Switzerland in 1849 after he ran into political difficulties. [3] Kübler returned to Winterthur in 1852 and from 1860 lived in Zürich. She worked as a translator, language teacher and writer of household guides and cookbooks. [1]

Selected publications

In 1850, she published Das Hauswesen (full title: Das Hauswesen: Nach seinem ganzen Umfang dargestellt in Briefen an eine Freundin or Housekeeping: Described in its Entirety in Letters to a Friend). She went on to publish several more household guides and cookbooks as well as children's stories. These include: [1] [4]

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