Amalie von Gehren

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Amalie von Gehren , b. Friederike Wilhelmine Amalie Baldinger (born October 11, 1769 in Jena , † December 14, 1819 in Darmstadt ) was a German poet and writer .

Life

Her parents were the well-known physician Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738–1804) and his first wife Dorothea Friderika born. Gutbier (1739–1786). The couple had six children - four sons and two daughters - of whom only two daughters survived childhood; Friederike Wilhelmine Amalie was the younger of the two.

During the childhood and youth of his daughters, Baldinger moved with his family several times for professional reasons, from Jena to Göttingen in 1773 , to Kassel in 1783 and finally to Marburg in 1785 . In Göttingen and Marburg, Amalie grew up in the enlightened- intellectual milieu of a university town and in her parents' home. Baldinger himself was the founder of a reading society in Marburg and maintained a private library of more than 15,000 volumes. His friends included the mathematician and physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) and the mathematician and epigram writer Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719–1800).

Amalie enjoyed an excellent upbringing and education, had almost unlimited access to all literature of the time, and her mother Dorothea Friderika, a self-taught writer, was a role model for her daughter. In 1789 she married the government procurator Bernhard von Gehren in Marburg , with whom she moved to Fronhausen near Marburg in 1791 , the new place of work for her husband who was appointed to the office there . In 1792 the couple moved to the vicinity of Darmstadt and in 1793 to Darmstadt itself, where Gehren was court counsel.

As a young woman she wrote and published poems, starting in 1784 in the Hessian Musenalmanach . However, she only became really known when she published her correspondence from 1781–1799 with her father's friend, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, 50 years her senior, in 1810: Thirty letters and several epithets, by Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, previously Councilor and Professor zu Göttingen (Leske, Darmstadt, 1810). The letters, some of which were still addressed to the child “Malchen”, mostly deal with personal matters, and Amalie published them, as it were, as a kind of Kästner for women , to emphasize Kästner's high moral disposition, his joviality and his affable interest in women and children.

Amalie von Gehren died on December 14, 1819 in Darmstadt.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Heinrich Wilhelm Red Mouth: The learned Hannover . Volume 2, Carl Schünemann, Bremen, 1823, p. 16 digitized
  2. ^ Karl Goedecke: Outline for the history of German poetry from the sources . 2nd Edition. 7th volume, Ehlermann, Dresden, 1900 [Reprint Akademie Verlag: Berlin 2011], pp. 255-256 digitized
  3. ↑ Hessischer Musenalmanach, or Hessische poetic flower picking ; Hans Adolph Friedrich von Eschstruth (ed.), Marburg and Leipzig; only two editions appeared, 1783 and 1784.
  4. ↑ An early review can be found here: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , No. 70, March 1810, columns. 558-560
  5. ^ Rainer Baasner: Abraham Gotthelf Kästner: Enlightenment (1719-1800). Max Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1991, ISBN 3-484-36505-6 , p. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Miter, Amalie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baldinger, Friederike Wilhelmine Amalie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1819
Place of death Darmstadt