Therese Albertine Luise Robinson

Therese Albertine Luise Robinson (Talvj)
BornTherese Albertine Louise von Jakob
(French: Thérèse Albertine Louise von Jacob, under Napoleonic occupation.)
(1797-01-26)26 January 1797
Halle, Germany
Died13 April 1870(1870-04-13) (aged 73)
Hamburg, Germany
Pen nameTalvj
Occupation
  • Translator
  • novelist
  • short story writer
  • essayist
Period1826–1870
GenreTranslated poetry, Novella
Notable worksVolkslieder der Serben (1826), Auswanderer (1852) tr. The Exile (1853)

Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob Robinson (26 January 1797 – 13 April 1870) was a German-American author, linguist and translator, and second wife of biblical scholar Edward Robinson. She published under the pseudonym Talvj, an acronym derived from the initials of her birth name.

The author wrote a brief autobiographical preface in the Brockhausischen Conversations-Lexikon (1840). For a complete English biography of her life and work, see Irma Elizabeth Voigt (1913).