Anna Cäcilie Fabricius

Anna Cäcilie Fabricius (* October 4, 1747 as Anna Cäcilie Ambrosius in Flensburg , † July 18, 1820 in Kiel ) was a German writer.

Live and act

Anna Cäcilie Fabricius was the daughter of a rich Flensburg merchant. In 1771 she married the zoologist Johann Christian Fabricius . The couple had sons Johann Christian Eduard († 1832) and Thomas Balthasar (1774-1851), who worked as doctors in Schleswig-Holstein. Their daughter died in 1793 after a fall on the Pont Neuf .

Fabricius worked as a writer and translator. The correspondence with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock is particularly noteworthy . The poet wrote the sensitive texts between August 29, 1767 and October 20, 1770 from Copenhagen . Karl Friedrich Heinrich published them for the first time in 1816 in the Kieler Blätter of the University of Kiel , without mentioning that the letters were addressed to Anna Cäcilie Fabricius. The letters appeared for the second time in 1867 as publications by Johann Martin Lappenberg and Ludwig Weiland .

In 1797, Fabricius translated the French reflections on worship, civil customs and national festivals by LM Reveillière-Lepaux. As her own work, she wrote the tragedy Heinrich the Beloved or the Dignity of the Protestant in 1802 . She unsuccessfully asked the Prussian king for the release of Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, who was imprisoned in Olomouc .

Fabricius promised the Kiel University a legacy of 240 thalers in her will. This lasted until 1869. Memories of personal encounters with the woman described as witty can be found in Henrich Steffen's memoirs.

literature

• Olaf Klose: Fabricius, Anna Cäcilie . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, p. 139
• Ratjen, Henning:  Fabricius, Anna Cäcilie . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 504 f.