Arnoldine Wolf
Arnoldine Wolf (born January 20, 1769 in Kassel , † March 5, 1820 in Schmalkalden ) was a German poet .
Life
Arnoldine Wolf was born on January 21, 1769 in the old town of Kassel as the daughter of the procurator of the government in Kassel and syndic of the University of Marburg , Johann Karl Alexander Weissel. During a mysterious skin disease, she began to write poems at the age of 18. According to her own statements, she spent 26 weeks almost without sleep in this critical phase of the illness.
After her recovery, she married Georg Friedrich Wolf from Seligenthal near Schmalkalden in January 1795 in Kassel . He later became the mountain of the Hesse-Kasselian exclave Schmalkalden.
As a mother of seven and a mountain adviser, Arnoldine Wolf wrote poems mostly unnoticed. During the wars of freedom she was an avid writer of patriotic poems.
Her friendship with the poet Karl von Münchhausen, who was stationed in Schmalkalden as a military man, led her to meet Johann Gottfried Seume when he was visiting his friend in Schmalkalden on the way back from his "walk to Syracuse". She also came into contact with Jean Paul and classical Weimar. There she maintained contact with the family of General Superintendent Vogt, who u. a. Duchess Anna Amalias and Friedrich Schiller's funeral speech held. Vogt also introduced her to Johanna Schopenhauer's salon one afternoon in 1813 , where she met August von Goethe .
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In 1817 her only volume of poetry was published. An extensive subscription directory with over 300 names provides information about their circle of friends in the Hessian and Thuringian region. The subscribers include the Electoral Family in Kassel and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . The letter with which she asked Johann Wolfgang Goethe for a subscription is preserved in the Goethe and Schiller archive in (Weimar). Some of her poems found their way into literary journals and almanacs of the time.
- Arnoldine Wolf: Poems . Wiß, Schmalkalden 1817 (edited by Caspar C. Wiß)
reception
After her death, Arnoldine was quickly forgotten. Apart from a few short notes in regional historical publications of the city of Schmalkalden, no attention was paid to her life and work.
Robert Eberhardt, author and student at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg at the time, published a biography in 2011 and commented on the works of the poet's surviving works.
Web links
- Arnoldine Wolf in WorldCat
- Information about the emerging biography and work edition of Robert Eberhardt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Arnoldine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1820 |
| Place of death | Schmalkalden |