#OnThisDay in #history - in 1638, Sibylle Schwartz died at the age of 17 after a sudden illness. Sibylle was the daughter of the mayor of Greifswald (in northern #Germany or Pomerania) and she wrote #poetry from the age of 7. She wrote many poems influenced by her experiences living in the Thirty Years' War, when her town was occupied. Sibylle's work was published to much acclaim after her early death. #OTD#histodons#author#poet@histodons
Her collected poems: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Lms_AAAAcAAJ
