Assing, Ottilie

LC control no.	n 97066398
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Assing, Ottilie *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Assing, Ottilia
Biography/History note	Ottilie Assing was a journalist, educator, and abolitionist born February 11, 1819 in Hamburg, Germany. In 1852 she emigrated to the United States and after attending a meeting of the Americn Anti-Slavery Scociety she began corresponding and working with Frederick Douglass for over a period of 26 years. She died in Paris, August 21, 1884.
Birth date	18190211
Death date	18840821
Place of birth	Hamburg (Germany)
Place of death	Paris (France)
Profession or occupation	Journalists Educators Translators
Found in	Library of Congress Manuscript Division for Douglass, F. Papers,1841-1967 (Assing, Ottilia; correspondent of Frederick Douglass) Love across color lines, 1999: CIP t.p. (Ottilie Assing) galley (b. Feb. 11, 1819; d. 1884) Radical passion, 2000: CIP t.p. (Ottilie Assing) CIP change request (Ottilie Assing, not Ottilia Assing) Oxford African American Studies Center database, accessed November 25, 2014: (Assing, Ottilie; print journalist, educator, abolitionist, translator; born 11 February 1819 in Hamburg, Germany; attended a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society and began focusing on abolitionist topics (1854); profiled a minister who believed that blacks should be welcomed on public transportation in her essay "Colored People in New York; worked with Douglass on his writings, drafting some of his letters, speeches, and editorials; he and his descendants destroyed their correspondence; much of her work was saved because her sister donated it to a German university; ironically, Nazi officials hid her papers along with other university documents during World War II, preserving evidence of an intimate relationship between a white half-Jewish German woman and a black man who was once a slave; died 21 August 1884 in Paris, France)
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	n 98047814