Lina Theodora (Dora) Schmitz (1844–1926)

Translator. Daughter of Leonhard Schmitz (ODNB), classical scholar, and and his wife Eliza Mary Machell. Translated literary and scientific works from German into English, including Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte. Changed her surname to Machell by 1918.

Sources

BMD (Birth index, Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1911 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG14/46/525/3)

Lester 1995, pp. 37–8

London, England, electoral registers, 1832–1965 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 October 2022)

ODNB s.v. Schmitz, Leonhard.