Amalie winter

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Amalie Winter, steel engraving by Auguste Hüssener .

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

  1. ^ Repertory of the Entire German Literature, Volume 30 (1841)
  2. ^ Literary newspaper, volume 8 (1841)
  3. Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, Volume 243 (1841)

Web links

Wikisource: Amalie Winter  - Sources and full texts