Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Kleeberg, Minna

KLEEBERG, Minna, poet, b. in Elsmhorn, Holstein, Germany, 21 July, 1841; d. in New Haven, Conn., 31 Dec., 1878. She was the daughter of a physician named Cohen, and was carefully trained by her father, early showing poetical taste. In 1862 she married Rev. Dr. L. Kleeberg, with whom she came to this country in 1866. Her poems soon attracted attention, and her efforts to repel anti-Semitic accusations gained general praise. Most of her poems were published in Dr. L. Stein's “Freitag-Abend,” at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and they were collected in book-form just before her death (Louisville, Ky., 1877).