Birch Pfeiffer

Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte, was born at Stuttgart in 1800, and first appeared on the stage at Munich in her thirteenth year. Marrying in 1825 Mr. Birch of Copenhagen, she added his name to her own. She enjoyed considerable success as an actress, and in 1838 assumed the management of the Zurich theatre, and in 1849 took a permanent engagement at the theatre royal, Berlin. Many popular dramas, besides novels and sketches, came from her pen. She died in 1868.