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ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE See also:LOUISE] (1843– ) , See also:consort of See also:King See also:Charles I. (q.v.) of See also:Rumania, widely known by her See also:literary name of " Carmen Sylva," was See also:born on the 29th of See also:December 1843. She was the daughter of See also:Prince See also:Hermann of Neuwied. She first met the future king of Rumania at See also:Berlin in 1861, and was married to him on the 15th of See also:November 1869. Her only See also:child, a daughter, died in 1874. In the Russo-See also:Turkish See also:War of 1879-1878 she devoted herself to the care of the wounded, and founded the See also:Order of Elizabeth (a See also:gold See also:cross on a See also:blue ribbon) to See also:reward distinguished service in such See also:work. She fostered the higher See also:education of See also:women in Rumania, and established See also:societies for various charitable See also:objects. See also:Early distinguished by her excellence as a pianist, organist and See also:singer, she also showed considerable ability in See also:painting and See also:illuminating; but a lively poetic See also:imagination led her to the path of literature, and more especially to See also:poetry, folk-See also:lore and See also:ballads. In addition to numerous See also:original See also:works she put into literary See also:form many of the legends current among the Rumanian peasantry. Carmen Sylva " wrote with facility in See also:German, Rumanian, See also:French and See also:English. A few of her voluminous writings, which include poems, plays, novels, See also:short stories, essays, collections of aphorisms, &c., may be singled out for See also:special mention. Her earliest publications were See also:Sappho and Hammerstein, two poems which appeared at See also:Leipzig in 1880.

In 1888 she received the Prix Gotta, a See also:

prize awarded triennially by the French See also:Academy, for her See also:volume of See also:prose aphorisms See also:Les Pensees d'une reine (See also:Paris, 1882), a German version of which is entitled Vom Amboss (See also:Bonn, 189o). Cuvinte Suflelesci, religious meditations in Rumanian (See also:Bucharest, 1888), was also translated into German (Bonn, 1890), under the name of Seelen-Gesprache. Several of the works of " Carmen Sylva " were written in collaboration with See also:Mite Kremnitz, one of her maids of See also:honour, who was born at Greifswald in 1857, and married Dr Kremnitz of Bucharest; these were published between 1881 and 1888, in some cases under the pseudonyms Dito et Idem, and includes the novel Aus zwei Welten (Leipzig, 1884), See also:Anna See also:Boleyn (Bonn, 1886), a tragedy, In der Irre (Bonn, 1888), a collection of short stories, &c. Edleen See also:Vaughan, or Paths of Peril, a novel (See also:London, 1894), and Sweet See also:Hours, poems (London, 1904), were written in English. Among the See also:translations made by " Carmen Sylva" are German versions of See also:Pierre See also:Loti's See also:romance Pecheur d'Islande, and of See also:Paul de St See also:Victor's dramatic criticisms Les Deux Masques (Paris, 1881–1884) ; and in particular The See also:Bard of the Dimbovitza, a See also:fine English version by " Carmen Sylva " and See also:Alma Strettell of Helene See also:Vacarescu's collection of Rumanian folk-songs, &c., entitled Lieder aus dem Dimbovitzathal (Bonn, 1889). The Bard of the Dimbovitza was first published in 1891, and was soon reissued and See also:expanded. Translations from the original works of " Carmen Sylva " have appeared in all the See also:principal See also:languages of See also:Europe and in Armenian. See RUMANIA: See also:History; also M. Kremnitz, Carmen Sylva—eine Biographic (Leipzig, 1903) ; and, for a full bibliography, G. Bengescu, Carmen Sylva—bibliographie et extraits de ses csuvres (Paris, 1904).

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