Louise Victorine Ackerman
From Philosopedia
Ackermann, Louise Victorine (1813—1890)
A French poet, Ackermann exhibited in her work that she was a philosophic pessimist and atheist. Her husband, Paul Ackermann, also an atheist, was a teacher for Prince Frederick William, who became Frederick III. Both Ackermanns were friends of Proudhon. “God is dethroned,” said M. Caro of one of her 1874 poems.
She professed a hatred of Christianity as well as its interested professors, and Sainte Beuve called her “the learned solitary of Nice.” “Religions,” she wrote, “impose antiquated and narrow beliefs which are entirely unsuitable for a being who knows nothing and can affirm nothing.” Joseph McCabe said Ackermann was “very resolutely Agnostic, without using that word in her Pensées d’une solitaire, and she wrote a poem for her tombstone which begins: ‘I do not know.’ In the strict sense she was an atheist.”
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