Mia Munier-Wroblewski (1882–1965)

Mia Munier-Wroblewski was the daughter of a country doctor in the Courland region of western Latvia. She spent much of her childhood and youth in Livonia, and traveled extensively. She studied music in Riga and gave piano lessons to private students. In 1913, she married Hugo Munier, a Prussian farmer who died in a Russian internment camp in World War I. She lived in Sweden and then in Germany, settling after World War II in Süderlügum (Schleswig-Holstein). She became a popular writer whose best-known works included the novels Under the Changing Moon (6 volumes, 1927-1932) and New Era (1940). She also wrote many short stories and sketches, including Olaf Braren (1949).