Amalie Curtius

Charlotte Amalie Ehregott Curtius , b. Kretzschmar, (born December 14, 1780 in Dresden ; † December 28, 1835 there ) was a German writer . She wrote under the pseudonym Amalie Clarus .

Life

Curtius was born in Dresden as the only daughter of the respected businessman Kretzschmar. She had several brothers whose classes she attended. At a young age she wrote small essays and kept a diary for several years .

In 1801 she married the Appellationsrat Carl Friedrich Curtius (1764-1829), whose library she used to expand her knowledge. During a long illness, she began to work as a writer. She published her works anonymously or under the pseudonym "Amalie Clarus".

Works

• Anzoletta the beautiful unknown. From the English. Beyer & Marius, Erfurt 1804. ( digitized version )
• Antonie or misunderstood and rewarded loyalty. Epistle novel in 2 volumes. Academic bookshop, Kiel 1809.
• Fritz and Lottchen. A family painting. Goedsche, Meißen 1808.
• Franziska or The Chaining of Fate. Joachim, Leipzig 1814.
• The escape from the father's house. Leipzig, Joachim 1815.
• Shamrocks. Stories. 3 volumes, together with W. Willmar and Amalie Hübner. Starke, Cemnitz 1816-1818.
• The Ideals or The Maturing Friends. (in Hundt's narrator 1819)

literature

• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, p. 55.
• Carl Wilhelm Otto August Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century, first part AL . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1823, pp. 101-102.