Antonietta Klitsche de la Grange
Antonietta Klitsche de la Grange (born June 17, 1832 in Rome , † January 23, 1912 in Allumiere ) was an Italian journalist or writer, whose paternal origin was from the Princely House of Hohenzollern .
biography
Antonietta Klitsche de la Grange was born as one of the daughters of Theodor Friedrich Klitsche de la Grange and his Italian wife Teresa Costanzi. The father was a natural son of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and lived as a diplomat or officer in the Papal States .
As an active Catholic, the father worked as a religious writer in addition to his job. This tendency also passed on to the daughter. As the first journalist she worked from January 1867 for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano . She wanted to marry Emanuel de Fournel, a papal Zouave from France, who, however, died on October 5, 1867, in the battle near Viterbo . From that day on, Antonietta Klitsche de la Grange saw herself as a widow, never wanted to enter into another bond and lived mainly in Allumiere, where her brother Adolfo (1836-1894) also lived. She devoted herself increasingly to writing and wrote over 20 Christian historical novels and stories, which achieved a wide distribution and were translated into several languages. Many of them were also published in German, mostly by Pustet-Verlag Regensburg . It is reported of her that she was an avid cigar smoker and that a clear physiognomic similarity to her grandfather, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia was recognized.
According to her own request, Antonietta Klitsche de la Grange was buried on the Campo Verano in Rome and the epitaph was dedicated to her: "She lived single, wrote a lot, suffered badly and now rests in God."
Works
(Selection)
- The Vestal Virgin and the Gladiator (1865)
- Caesar Agrippa
- The Vestal Virgin, historical novel from the first century
- Pomponius Laetus
- The ferryman on the Tiber
- The picture of Strakonitz: historical novel
- Count Bernard von Sarriano (new edition, Salzwasser-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8460-1947-4 )
literature
- Frank-Rutger Hausmann , Volker Kapp: Bibliography of German translations from Italian, from the beginnings to the present . Volume 2. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-11-093629-1 , p. 726 f. ( Excerpt from Google Books )
Web links
- Italian website about Theodor Friedrich Klitsche de la Grange and his family
- Vatican website with biographical article on Antonietta Klitsche de la Grange
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klitsche de la Grange, Antonietta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klitschke de la Grange, Antonietta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian journalist and novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1912 |
| Place of death | Allumiere |