ACKERMANN, LOUISE VICTORINE CHOQUET (1813-1890), French poet, was born in Paris on Nov. 3o, 1813. Educated by her father in the philosophy of the encyclopaedists, Victorine Choquet went to Berlin in 1838 to study German, and there married in 1843 Paul Ackermann, an Alsatian philologist.
After little more than two years of happy married life her husband died, and Mme. Ackermann went to live at Nice. In 1855 she published Contes en vers, and in 1862 C.ontes et poesies. Very different from these simple and charming contes is the work on which Mme. Ackermann's real reputation rests. She published in 1874 Poesies, premieres poesies, poesies philosophiques, a volume of sombre and powerful verse, expressing her revolt against human suffering. Soon after the publication of this volume Mme. Ackermann removed to Paris, where she gathered round her a circle of friends, but published nothing further except a prose volume, the Pensees d'une solitaire (1883, Eng. trans., Glas gow, 1921), to which she prefixed a short autobiography. She died at Nice on Aug. 2, 189o.
See also Anatole France, La vie litteraire, 4th series (1892) ; the comte d'Haussonville, Mrne. Ackermann (1882) ; M. Citoleux, La poisie philosophique au XIXC siecle (vol. i. 1906) ; 0. B. P. G. de Cleron, Mme. Ackermann d'apres des lettres et des papiers inedits (1892).