Editing Eduard von Steiger (section)

== Personal life ==
In 1914, von Steiger married Béatrice Gabriele von Muelinen, colloquially Beatrix von Steiger (1889–1974), a daughter of Hans-Friedrich von Muelinen and Mathilda Emma Alice von Muelinen ([[née]] de Bary).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Der Bund 26. August 1974 — e-newspaperarchives.ch |url=https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=DBB19740826-01.2.22.2&srpos=5&e=------197-de-20--1--img-txIN-beatrix+von+steiger-------0----- |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=www.e-newspaperarchives.ch |language=de}}</ref> Her father was a [[Forester|head forester]] for the city of Bern, whilst her mother was a devoted poet and author who served as president and honorary president of the Bernese Lyceum Club and hailed from a silk manufacturing dynasty in Basel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Der Bund 6. April 1936 Ausgabe 02 — e-newspaperarchives.ch |url=https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=DBB19360406-02.2.20&srpos=2&e=-------de-20--1--img-txIN-Hans+Friedrich+von+M%C3%BClinen-------0----- |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=www.e-newspaperarchives.ch |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Der Bund 14. September 1952 — e-newspaperarchives.ch |url=https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=DBB19520914-01.2.41.2&srpos=1&e=-------de-20--1--img-txIN-von+M%C3%BClinen%252Dde+bary-------0----- |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=www.e-newspaperarchives.ch |language=de}}</ref> They had a daughter;

* Marie Madeleine Gabrielle von Steiger (born 1915), married to Belgian-born [[René Derolez|René Lodewijk Maurits Derolez]], a philologist and professor for English and [[Germanic philology]] at [[Ghent University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Old English Newsletter Online |url=https://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/print.php/memorials/derolez/ |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=www.oenewsletter.org}}</ref>

Von Steiger died on 10 February 1962 in [[Bern|Bern, Switzerland]] aged 80.