Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I whanau a Pötting i Chrudim, Bohemia i te tau 1856 ki a Count Norbert von Pötting me Cajetana Chorinská no Prague. Kotahi tana tuakana, ko Norbert, i noho hei kaituku ture, me tetahi tuahine pakeke, ko Hedwig, he kaitiaki mo Bertha von Suttner. I ako ia i raro i a Karl von Blaas me Hans Canon i Vienna. I whakaatuhia e ia ana mahi i roto i te rotunda o te Whare Wahine
i te Whakaaturanga o te Ao o te 1893 i Chicago, Illinois. I mate a Pötting i Abbazia i te tau 1909.