Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan

Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan
Born	Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz September 22, 1880 Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	January 10, 1964 Hennepin, Minnesota, U.S.
Other names	Anna Phelan
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin
Occupations	educator author
Employer	University of Minnesota
Spouse	Raymond V. Phelan ​ (m. 1908)​
Relatives	Hermann von Helmholtz (grand-uncle)

Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan (September 22, 1880 – January 10, 1964) was an American university professor, author, speaker, poet, and social activist. For more than four decades she taught English and creative writing at the University of Minnesota, with a specialty in short stories, before retiring in 1949 as assistant professor emerita of English.^[1] Phelan was the author of The Indebtedness of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1907; originally presented as the author's M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1905), The Social Ideals of William Morris (originally presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1908), "The Staging of the Court Drama to 1595" (1909), and The Social Philosophy of William Morris (1927). A collection of her poetry was published in The Crystal Cup (1949), the royalties of which established the Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan Award for Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.