Anna Sartorius Uhl Ottendorfer  Anna Sartorius Uhl
Ottendorfer, née Anna Sartorius or Anna Behr    (born Feb. 13,
1815, Würzburg, Bavaria [now in Germany]—died April 1, 1884New
York, N.Y., U.S.),  publisher and philanthropist who helped
establish a major German-American newspaper and contributed
liberally to German-American institutions.  Anna Sartorius
received a scanty education. About 1836 she immigrated to the
United States and settled in New York City. Sources are divided
over whether her marriage to Jacob Uhl, a printer, took place
before or after she moved to the United States. In either case,
by 1844 they had bought a print shop and along with it the
contract for printing the weekly New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung. They
bought the newspaper outright the following year. Together—Anna
Uhl shared in the editorial, business, and even composing room
and press work involved—they built the paper into a successful
institution that was distributed to other cities with sizable
German communities as well. It soon beca