Maria Stona, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maria Stona

patron and writer

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1861

Place of Birth: Třebovice, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1944

Profession: writer, poet

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Maria Stona; Marie Scholz; born Stonawski (1859–1944) was a Silesian German writer and poet.
Her daughter was the sculptor Helen Zelezny-Scholz. In Trebovice she led artistic salon.
She drew into her circles many noticeable persons, world-famous artists, politicians and writers such as Georg Brandes, Georges Clemenceau, Berta von Suttner, Flinders Petrie, Stefan Zweig, being among her guests in her home the Chateau of Trebovice (Strzebowitz). She corresponded regularly with Georg Brandes from 1899 to his death 1927. Maria Stona died in 1944, during the World War II.
In the course of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Red Army her chateau was damaged and subsequently was deteriorating.
It was completely demolished in 1958. Some of her books are available at The Royal Library in Copenhagen, where some of her letters may also be found in "Georg Brandes Arkivet".