Career
She was the seventh child of Johann Georg Mönckeberg (1839–1908), a lawyer and Lord Mayor of Hamburg. After her education at school in Hamburg, she travelled to Florence for further study, where in 1900 she stayed with Aby Warburg and Mary Warburg. They moved to Freiburg in 1902 and Berlin in 1909 where Mathilde worked as a translator, before their divorce on 26 July 1918.
She then returned to Hamburg and in 1923-1924 she published a German translation (entitled Herbst des Mittelalters) of the Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga’s Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (1919), (English translation The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1996)).
