Aloysia von Eichendorff

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Aloysia Anna Viktoria Freifrau von Eichendorff , birth name Freiin von Larisch , also : Loiska, poetic : Luise, Liebchen (born July 18, 1792 in Niewiadom , Duchy of Ratibor ; † December 3, 1855 in Neisse , district of Neisse ) was a Prussian noblewoman and wife of the poet lawyer Joseph von Eichendorff .

Life

Origin and youth

The noble Catholic family of the Barons von Larisch lived in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Aloysia's grandfather Johann Joseph von Larisch came from Militsch north of Breslau and settled in Niewiadom. The father Johann Nepomuk von Larisch was born on June 9, 1771 in Niewiadom and married Helene von Czentner and Czententhal (also Centner von Cententhal) in 1789 Aloysia Anna Viktoria von Larisch was born on July 18, 1792 in Niewiadom as his second child and for a few days then baptized in the parish church in Rybnik . In 1795 the father sold the manor in Niewiadom and bought the manor including the Pogrzebin Castle . First she received home tuition from the steward Anton Czogalla, then her parents took them to a girls' boarding school run by the Magdalenerinnen in Neisse for training .

During the summer holidays in 1809 which took place engagement of the seventeen-year-old Aloysia Joseph von Eichendorff. During his training phase, Joseph wrote several letters from Berlin and Vienna to 'Luise', 'mein Liebchen' and dedicated a few poems to her. Two poems are known that Luise wrote for Joseph. She replied to his poem The Winged Horse with folk song stanzas as follows:

It is often so dreary
In the forest as in the house,
But I'm still too stupid
I can't go out!

Thanks for sharing the seat,
On a colorful horse!
Oh, I don't have to stay here
In the cellar and in the castle!

Because I want to get off the steps
Swing me on your horse,
Mother calls out
Warning me about the stove.

I have to shake quickly:
Your horse at this tone
And all that sweet life
Flee shyly from me.

So I still have to hesitate;
But am I united to you
The horse may carry me there
As far as the sky seems.

Augustin Bogislaus Weltzel : History of the noble and baronial family of Eichendorff . Self-published, Ratibor 1876. , pp. 29-30.

In April 1813 Joseph left Vienna as a poet lawyer . Subsequently he joined the Lützow Freikorps and took part in the wars of liberation against Napoleon until 1815 . Luise expressed her fear for Joseph's life as follows:

You did not beat in vain, oh heart;
The bitter pain was not far away.
Away with his last look
Was my whole earthly happiness.

War, it sounds from afar
Through the land and across the sea
And for the fatherland to a dispute
My lover is already ready.

God of love who created me
Hear a poor cry
The ones in the hottest prayer
To you begs for salvation.

Augustin Bogislaus Weltzel : History of the noble and baronial family of Eichendorff . Self-published, Ratibor 1876. , pp. 30–31.

The fiancées married on April 7, 1815 in the St. Vincent Church in Breslau . The couple then moved to Berlin, where they lived with Friedrich Karl von Savigny and his wife Gunda , Clemens Brentano's sister . When the war broke out again , Joseph took part in the pursuit of the French army defeated at Waterloo and did not return to Luise until 1816 in Berlin.

Family life

On August 30, 1815, Luise gave birth to her first son Hermann in Berlin, in the absence of her husband . Four more children followed by 1830:

  • Marie Therese Alexandrine (1817-1894)
  • Rudolf Joseph Julius (1819-1891)
  • Agnes Clara (1821-1822)
  • Anna Hedwig Josephine (1830-1832)

Two of her daughters died as children in 1822–1832 - the poet expressed the grief of their parents after the loss of their daughters in 1932 in the song cycle On my child's death .

From 1816 Joseph was employed as a trainee lawyer at the regional council in Breslau. At that time it was customary in Prussia to employ civil servants in their legal traineeship for a few years without pay. In November 1819 he was appointed government assessor. On December 20, 1820, Joseph was appointed to the Catholic Consistorial and School Council for West and East Prussia in Danzig and began to receive an annual starting salary of 1200 Reichstaler from January 1821 . The family lived in Silberhammer near Danzig-Langfuhr , then in Brotbänkengasse at the Brotbänkentor and in Langgasse . In April 1824 the provinces of West and East Prussia were merged to form the Province of East Prussia and Joseph was transferred from Danzig to Königsberg as senior president with an annual salary of 1,600 Reichstaler. Joseph von Eichendorff first lived in Königsberg Castle , then with the family in a town house in the city center. The family spent the summer of 1828 with Luise's parents at Pogrzebin Castle, with a trip to the Giant Mountains . A year later, the father sold the Pogrzebin estate and Aloysia's parents lived in Ratibor until they died . In 1831 Joseph was transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Foreign Affairs in Berlin as a secret councilor .

In July 1837 the daughter Marie Therese von Eichendorff married the Prussian major Ludwig Besserer von Dahlfingen (1794-1858) in Sedlnitz .

After Joseph retired on July 1, 1844, the couple lived together with the family of their daughter Marie Therese in Danzig. In the late summer of 1846, Luise and Joseph traveled from Danzig to Vienna together with their daughter and grandchildren Otto and Max. From early May to early summer 1847 they lived with Joseph's sister Luise von Eichendorff in Baden near Vienna.

In 1847, the son-in-law Ludwig von Besserer-Dahlfingen was transferred from Danzig to Berlin as a teacher in the cadet corps - the extended family moved into an apartment in the cadet house on Friedrichstrasse. During the German Revolution 1848–1849 the Eichendorffs fled first to Dresden, after the Dresden May uprising to Meißen and in 1849 to their daughter in Köthen .

Luise and Joseph Eichendorffs spent the summer months of 1851 in Sedlnitz . On August 10, 1854, the daughter of Major Nicolaus von Holly-Ponientzietz, a relative of Luise's paternal side, bought a house in Koethen for 4,100 thalers and the extended family moved there in May 1855.

At the beginning of 1855 Luise fell ill with liver disease. The previous stay in Koethen did not bring any significant improvement, the cure in Karlsbad from June 4th to July 15th showed only short-term results. The son-in-law Ludwig von Besserer-Dahlfingen was transferred to Neisse as director of the division school. When Luise's health deteriorated further, she moved with Joseph from Berlin on November 14 to live with their daughter in Neisse, where she died on December 3, 1855.

The Eichendorff grave in the Jerusalem cemetery

Poems for and about 'Luise' (selection)

  • 1810: To the distant
  • 1810: Intermezzo
  • 1812: Farewell. To L.
  • 1812: The wing horse ( online )
  • 1813: Farewell plaque
  • 1814: The Messenger of Peace
  • 1814: Farewell and reunion
  • 1815: complaint
  • 1816: To Luise ( online )
  • 1837: the poet
  • 1826: separation ( online)
  • Epistles

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph von Eichendorff: The winged horse. Zeno.org , accessed August 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Joseph von Eichendorff: On my child's death. Zeno.org , 1970, accessed March 24, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Eichendorff, Aloysia von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichendorff, Aloysia Anna Viktoria Freiin von (full name); Larisch, Aloysia Anna Viktoria Freiin von (maiden name); Eichendorff, Loiska von; Eichendorff, Luise von; sweetheart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Joseph von Eichendorff
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Niewiadom , Duchy of Ratibor
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1855
Place of death Neisse , Neisse district