Auguste von Littrow

Auguste von Littrow with her husband Karl Ludwig; painting by Josef Danhauser.

Auguste von Littrow, née von Bischoff-Altenstein (13 February 1819 in Prague 23 March 1890 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian author and women's movement leader.

She was the daughter of the physician Professor Ignaz von Bischoff-Altenstein. Shortly after her 20th birthday, in 1839, she married astronomer Karl Ludwig von Littrow and settled in Vienna. Rapidly the Littrow household developed into a meeting place of Viennese society. There Hermann Bonitz, Josef Danhauser, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, August Eisenmenger, Ernst von Feuchtersleben, Ottilie von Goethe, Franz Grillparzer, Friedrich Hebbel, Rudolf von Jhering, Joseph Lewinsky, Franz Miklosich all met.

Asteroid 254 Augusta is named in her honour.[1]

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  1. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (254) Augusta. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 37. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved October 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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