Some of her written work was published under her pseudonym, Marie von Thurnberg. Marie Regelsberg von Thurnberg was born in Werschetz (as Vršac was known at that time) in the Austro-Hungarian empire, north of Belgrade and south-east of Budapest. (Today it is in north-eastern Serbia). By the time she was five the family had already moved to Vienna. Her father, Oberstleutnant Regelsberg von Thurnberg, was a career soldier, serving in the Imperial Austrian Army. Her mother came originally from the Transylvanian Saxon community of ethnic Germans who had been colonising Transylvania since the twelfth century. It was from her mother that she acquired her love of painting and literature, along with a sound education: she was devastated by her mother's death, after a long illness, at a time when she herself was still only eighteen. Marie wrote her first serious poetry when she was fourteen, and when she was fifteen she produced "Theodora", her first short story which, like the early poetry, remained unpublished. However, she sought comfort following to her mother's death in 1828 not by burying herself in more writing, but by turning to oil painting. Over the next few years, accompanied by her aunt or her father, she toured the studios of Vienna's leading painters, producing numerous miniature portraits and copying well known pieces from the Esterházy Gallery. She copied works by Raphael Mengs, Leonardo da Vinci and Peter Paul Rubens. She produced madonna images and altar images for various churches and monasteries. Of particular note is a fourteen image Stations of the Cross set that she produced for the church at Pyhra, near St. Pölten, to the west of Vienna. In 1835 Marie married Captain Ferdinand Baron von Augustin who was, like her father, an army officer. Because of her husband's career choice, the ensuing years were marked by frequent house moves. Marie von Augustn now turned decisively back to her writing. Starting in the mid 1840s she published a succession of novels, novellas and poems. In 1885 Marie von Augustin became the first president of the . She also engaged actively in the emerging women's rights movement. USFS Crane  USFS "Crane was an American fishery patrol vessel that operated in the waters of the Territory of Alaska. She was in commission in the United States Bureau of Fisheries (BOF) fleet from 1928 to 1940.