Amalie winter
Amalie Winter (born October 10, 1802 in Weimar as Amalie von Seebach; † June 13, 1879 in Weimar; actually Amalie Freiherrin von Groß ) was a German writer .
Life
Amalie made the acquaintance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at a young age and was shaped by this contact. On October 10, 1821, she married the later Saxon Chamberlain and Privy Finance Councilor, Ludwig Freiherr von Groß . At the age of 27 she published her first texts in the Weimar magazine Chaos (1829-1832), which was edited by Ottilie von Goethe . From 1838 she published short stories and children's and youth literature; She also wrote two didactic-pedagogical works with the titles Die Klein-Kinder-Schule (1846) and The Kindesseele in its deepest exploration (1855). In addition, she worked as a translator and translated, for example, Lady Blessington's Wanderings in Italy (1840), Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater (1840) and Lady Charlotte Bury's Memoirs of a Pairess from England in Fox's Time (1840) from English into German.
Works
- Memoirs of a Berlin doll: for children aged five to ten and for their mothers. . Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1844.
- The children and the angels: a useful reading and learning tool Picture book f. Boys and Girl v. 5 to 10 years. Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1845.
- The little lazzaroni of Naples. Simion, Berlin 1846.
- Wonders and Tales of the Nineteenth Century: Life Images from Society. Chr. E. Kollmann, Leipzig 1856.
literature
- Henry Gardiner Adams: A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography , London 1857, p. 350.
- Sophie Pataky : Lexicon of German women of the pen , Vol. 2., Berlin 1898, pp. 442–443.
- Stefanie Freyer, Katrin Horn, Nicole Grochowina (eds.): FrauenGestalten Weimar-Jena around 1800. A bio-bibliographical lexicon. , Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8253-5656-9 .
- Ulrike Müller : Amalie Winter. Weimarer Verlagsgesellschaft, Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-7374-0222-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Repertory of the Entire German Literature, Volume 30 (1841)
- ^ Literary newspaper, volume 8 (1841)
- ↑ Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, Volume 243 (1841)
Web links
- Literature by and about Amalie Winter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Amalie Winter in the German Digital Library
- Max Mendheim : Winter, Amalie . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 463 f.
- Amalie Winter on LibriVox
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Winter, Amalie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | von Seebach, Amalie (maiden name); Baroness von Groß, Amalie (married name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1802 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1879 |
Place of death | Weimar |