HAHN-HAHN, IDA, COUNTESS VON (1805-188o), German author, was born at Tressow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, on June 22, 18o5, daughter of count Karl Friedrich von Hahn She married in 1826 her wealthy cousin count Adolf von Hahn Hahn. The marriage was unhappy, and in 1829 she procured a divorce. The countess travelled, produced some volumes of poetry indicating true lyrical feeling, and in 1838 appeared as a novelist with Aus der Gesellscha f t, a title given to a whole series of her novels, the book originally so entitled being renamed Ida Scholl holm. The countess's patrician affectations at length drew upon her the merciless ridicule of Fanny Lewald in a parody of her style entitled Diogena, Roman von Iduna H . . . H . . . (2nd ed., 1847), and after the revolution of 1848 she retired to a convent. Ulrich and Gra fin Faustine (1841) are her best works. She died at Mainz on Jan. 12, 1880.
See her Gesammelte Werke (Regensburg, 45 vols., 1903—o4) with an introduction by 0. von Schaching. See also A. Jacoby, Ida Grdfin Hahn-Hahn (Mainz, 1894) .