{{short description|US translator of German literature}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{no footnotes|date=September 2010}} '''Ellen Frothingham''' (25 March 1835 – 1902) worked in the United States as a translator of German-language works into English.
==Biography== She was born in Boston, the daughter of Nathaniel Frothingham. She studied German literature and was well known for her translations into English of Lessing's ''Nathan der Weise'' (Kuno Fischer's edition; New York, 1868), Goethe's ''Hermann und Dorothea'' (1870), Berthold Auerbach's ''Edelweiss'' (1871), Lessing's ''Laokoon'' (1874), and Franz Grillparzer's ''Sappho'' (1876).
==Sources== *{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Frothingham, Ellen|year=1906}} *{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon|year=1900}} *{{Cite web|url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Frothingham%2C%20Ellen%2C%201835%2D1902|title = Frothingham%2C%20Ellen%2C%201835%2D1902 | the Online Books Page}}
==External links== {{Library resources box|by=yes|onlinebooksby=yes|viaf=27451828}} * {{Gutenberg author |id=4725| name=Ellen Frothingham}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Ellen Frothingham |sopt=t}}
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