Caroline Pichler

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Portrait from: Anthology from all of C. Pichler's works (Family Library of German Classics, Hildburghausen & Amsterdam: Bibliographisches Institut, vol. 95.1844)

Caroline Pichler (also: Karoline ; born September 7, 1769 in Vienna ; † July 9, 1843 in Vienna) was an Austrian writer , poet , critic and salonier .

Life

Caroline Pichler was the daughter of Hofrat Franz Sales von Greiner (1732–1798) and Charlotte (Karoline) Hieronymus (1740–1815), chambermaid and reader of Empress Maria Theresa . Her brother-in-law was Anton Pichler (1770–1823), a well-known bookseller and publisher, who also published some of her books. In the artistically gifted parental home, like her brother, she received a thorough education (including natural sciences, religion and mythology), learned several languages ​​(Latin, French, Italian, English), received singing and piano lessons and was acquainted with Mozart and Haydn .

In 1796 she married the government secretary Andreas Pichler (1764–1837). The couple had a daughter: Karoline (* 1797), she married Joseph Edlen von Pelzeln. Among the grandchildren were the ornithologist August von Pelzeln and the writers Marie von Pelzeln (pseud. Emma Franz) and Fanny von Pelzeln (pseud. Henriette Franz).

Caroline Pichler grave site

Caroline Pichler wrote novels, short stories, dramas and poems. Her first work, "Parables" from 1799, was already successful. She became famous mainly for her historical novels, especially the Agathocles , for which she even received a letter from Goethe. She is also considered to be a key supporter of Slavica in the Habsburg Empire .

From 1807 she published articles in the morning paper for educated classes . She had a long correspondence with her co-author Therese Huber .

In addition to her literary activities, she also continued her parents' literary salon . Such salons were considered the most important events of their kind in Vienna at the time. Early regulars were the brothers Heinrich Joseph and Matthäus von Collin , Joseph von Hormayr and Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall , later Therese von Artner , Johanna Franul von Weißenthurn , Marie Elisabeth Zay von Csömör , Zacharias Werner and the brothers August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel . In addition to these, Franz Grillparzer , Franz Schubert , Theodor Körner , Johann Ludwig Tieck and Anton Prokesch from the east also frequented her . She was also known to Adam Oehlenschläger , Germaine de Staël , Karoline von Woltmann , Wilhelm von Humboldt and Henriette Herz . She had a 30-year friendship with Dorothea Schlegel .

After the death of her husband, she spent the last years of her life in the household of her daughter, who was also widowed, while her fame as a writer quickly faded and she often had financial worries. After an outbreak of illness in May 1843, she died of old age in July. Without further information on the circumstances, a suicide was alleged on several occasions. She rests with her husband and mother (whose names are missing on the grave) in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 0, row 1, number 27). In 1883 the Pichlergasse in Vienna- Alsergrund (9th district) was named after her.

Works

  • Parables (1800)
  • Idylls (1803, digitized version )
  • Leonore. Paintings from the big world (2 volumes, 1804)
  • Ruth , 1805
  • Agathocles. Letter novel from antiquity (3 volumes, 1808)
  • Women's dignity (novel, 4 volumes 1808. New edition: Women's dignity. By Caroline Pichler, born von Greiner . First part / second part. Reutlingen: Fleischhauer and Spohn 1820. Part 4 )
  • The Counts of Hohenberg (novel, 2 volumes, 1811)
  • Stories (2 volumes, 1812)
  • Biblical Idylls (1812)
  • Olivier (novel, 1812, digitized version )
  • Germanicus: a tragedy in five acts (1813, digitized )
  • Poems (I, 1814)
  • Dramatic poems (I, 3 volumes, 1815-1818)
  • Mathilde , libretto for the opera by August Mayer , 1818
  • New Dramatic Poems (II, 1818)
  • New stories (3 volumes 1818–1820)
  • The rivals (novel, 2 volumes 1821)
  • Prosaic essays (2 volumes, 1822)
  • Dramatic poems (III, 3 volumes 1822)
  • Ferdinand der Zweyte , King of Hungary and Bohemia , play in five acts, 1822
  • Amalie von Mannsfeld , play in three acts, 1822
  • Short stories (10 volumes, 1822–1828)
  • Poems (II, 1822)
  • The Siege of Vienna (3 volumes, 1824, digital version )
  • The Swedes in Prague (3 volumes, 1827, digitized version )
  • The Reconquest of Ofen (2 volumes, 1829, digitized version )
  • Frederick the arguable (4 volumes, 1831, part 1-2 , part 3-4 )
  • Henriette of England , wife of the Duke of Orleans (novella, 1832)
  • Elisabeth von Guttenstein (novel in 3 volumes, 1835)
  • Scattered sheets of paper from my desk (1836)
  • Zeitbilder (2 volumes, 1839/1841, volume 1 )
  • Memories from my life ( published posthumously in 1844 by Ferdinand Wolf , (autobiography in 4 volumes) Volume 1 )
  • Prosaic essays with mixed content , including " Angelo Soliman "

The edition of Caroline Pichler's Complete Works (1820/1845) comprised 60 volumes. In 1894, the compilation of selected stories appeared in four volumes .

literature

Web links

Commons : Caroline Pichler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Karoline Pichler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julia Kosbab: Caroline Pichler's "Zeitbilder" (diploma thesis, Vienna 2013)
  2. ↑ Karmen Petra Moissi: Bulgarica of the 19th century printed in Vienna in the holdings of the Austrian National Library (ÖNB) , in: Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch , Volume 55/2009, p. 67, ÖAW , Vienna, 2009
  3. ^ Therese Huber, Caroline Pichler: Writers and sister souls: The correspondence between Therese Huber (1764-1829) and Karoline Pichler (1769-1843) . Ed .: Brigitte Leuschner. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-8288-8238-2 , p. 204 .
  4. ↑ a b Stefan Jordan: Pichler, Caroline . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 20 (2001), p. 411 f .; Online version
  5. ^ A b c Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 238 f.
  6. ↑ Death register of Alservorstadt, Vienna
  7. ↑ Caroline Pichler: All works. 1814, p. 222 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Pichler, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pichler, Karoline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, poet and critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1843
Place of death Vienna