Ewelina Hańska Ewelina Hańska Eveline Hańska (Ewelina, née Rzewuska, 6 January c. 1805 – 11 April 1882) was a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia, (now Ukraine) Hańska married landowner Wacław Hański (Wenceslas Hanski) when she was a teenager. Hański, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. They had five children, but only a daughter, Anna, survived. In the late 1820s, Hańska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Hańska and Balzac
Eveline Nünchert Eveline Nünchert Eveline Nünchert (born 13 May 1943), née Kraatz, is a German chess player who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM, 1990). She is a winner the East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1973). In the 1960s and 1970s, Eveline Nünchert was one of the leading chess players in the East Germany. She won nine medals in East Germany Women's Chess Championships: gold (1973), three silver (1963, 1970, 1974) and five bronzes (1964, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1981). In 1994, she was third in the German Women's Blitz Championship. She also successfully participated in the German Senior's Chess Championships