Louise Adeline Weitzel was an American writer of German descent.
Background
She was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Given the socio-cultural context in which she was born and raised, her work is unique, not only because of the content of her writing per se but also because she produced and published her texts as a woman and in her native German dialect (Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch) in the United States.
Career
Her family moved to Lititz, Pennsylvania while she was still a young lady. Her will, only 30 words long, left her $855 estate to the Moravian Home for Aged Women in Lititz. Weitzel obtained her education at Sunnyside Kollitsch and at the Linden Hall Seminary for girls.
Later she would work for local German-language newspapers where she ultimately found a vehicle to her voice as a poet.
In 1908 she published the book A Quiver of Arrows: by Weitzel.