Amalie von Levetzow

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Amalie von Levetzow (1803), painting by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein

Amalie Theodore Caroline von Levetzow , born von Brösigke , divorced von Levetzow , widowed von Levetzow, widowed Countess von Klebelsberg-Thumburg zu Třiblitz (* 1788 ; † 1868 in Triblitz in Bohemia ), was the mother of Ulrike von Levetzow , who became famous through Goethe .

Life

Amalie was born as Amalie von Brösigke.

In 1803, when she was 15, she married Joachim Otto Ulrich von Levetzow (* March 25, 1777; † January 28, 1843). She gave birth to two daughters, Ulrike and Amalia (also Amélie), but then separated from Joachim. She married his cousin Friedrich Carl Ulrich von Levetzow, who fell at Waterloo . The daughter Bertha came from this connection.

In the years 1821, 1822 and 1823 she stayed with the children in Marienbad and met Goethe there on a daily basis, with whom she was already on friendly terms. 72-year-old Goethe was drawn to 17-year-old Ulrike and fell in love with her. He sent a written marriage proposal to Amalie, he hadn't spoken to either Amalie or Ulrike about it. Grand Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach appeared at Amalie's and asked for her daughter's hand for Goethe. Amalie couldn't very well say no to the prince, but she said she would let Ulrike make the decision. In any case, she did not talk to her daughter, and Ulrike never married.

Goethe immortalized the situation in his Marienbad Elegy .

Her daughter Amélie became the wife of the later Prussian major general Leopold von Rauch in 1827 .

In 1843 Amalie von Levetzow married the third marriage of the Austrian court chamber president and Bohemian count Franz Josef von Klebelsberg-Thumburg zu Třiblitz (* July 24, 1774 - December 28, 1857), former president of the Vienna court chamber . After the death of her third husband, she took over his rule Třiblitz, which passed to Ulrike after her own death. Her nephew, Austro-Hungarian Colonel Adalbert von Rauch , the younger son of her sister Amélie, who died young , became heir from Třiblitz to Ulrike von Levetzow .

Before their first marriage in 1803, Johann Friedrich August Tischbein , the “Leipziger Tischbein”, portrayed the 15-year-old Amalie Brösigke. This painting is on permanent loan from the Adam and Luisa Haeuser Foundation in the Goethe House in Frankfurt .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1903. Fourth year, S.510
  2. ↑ Amélie Sztatecsny: "Dear Mr. Secret Council" (July 4, 2008, accessed on March 20, 2013)
  3. ^ Goethe, Johann Wolfgang: Directory of persons
personal data
SURNAME Levetzow, Amalie von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mother of Ulrike von Levetzow (Goethe's last love)
DATE OF BIRTH 1788
DATE OF DEATH 1868
Place of death Triblitz , Bohemia