Augusta von Goldstein

Augusta von Goldstein (born February 20, 1764 in Breslau ; † February 18, 1837 there ) was a German writer.

Life

Augusta von Goldstein was the daughter of Gottfried Ernst von Wallenrodt (* May 18, 1725; † February 4, 1776 in Breslau), Prussian major in the Cuirassier Regiment and his wife Johanna Isabella Eleonore von Wallenrodt .

She still had four siblings:

• Friedrich Julius Ernst (born November 28, 1762 in Utrecht , † January 24, 1809 in Koenigsberg ), Fideikommissherr on Popehnen in the Wehlau district and Royal Prussian Rittmeister , most recently cuirassier regiment of Heyling ∞ Karoline von Graeve (born June 20, 1766 in Ossig ; † September 26, 1849 in Königsberg);
• Karl Wilhelm Leopold;

• Antoinette Albertine Johanna († April 26, 1839) ∞ Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann von Korckwitz († July 24, 1815), landlord;
• Charlotte Friederike Franziska (* October 22, 1776; † May 6, 1847) ∞ Karl Moritz Gottlob von Kessel († August 11, 1822).

In 1791 Augusta von Goldstein married for the first time, but after a short time divorced again, but initially kept the family name of her divorced husband.

In 1803 she married the Freiherr von Goldstein in Saxony . Due to the loss of her husband's fortune, this marriage also failed. The couple separated after several years, her husband lived in Saxony and she stayed in Liebenfelde with Soldin as an educator for a befriended family and lived on a pension that she received from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. received. In 1806 she moved to Prague and from there to Brzeg . She later moved to Breslau and lived there until her death. She was active as a writer and also translated comedies from French on commission. Her comedy The Soldiers of Fortune was performed in Prague in 1806 in her presence.

She had a daughter from one of her marriages, but she died before her.

Fonts (selection)

• The adventurers. Comedy in four acts . Prague 1788.
• Kollmar and Klaire: A Patriotic Story . Leipzig: Voss, 1793–1795.
• The three distaffs (library of the gray pre-world) . Leipzig 1793.
• Christmas basket for the youth. Leipzig 1794.
• Emma von Ruppin. History of sorrows, joys and wonders . 2nd volume . Leipzig, by Friedrich Gotthold Jacobäer 1794
• Narratives and dramatically edited scenes for entertainment for lovers of romantic reading . Rostock 1798
• Klara von Leuenstein - A play from the times of knights after Walafried; in five elevators . Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1806.
• Adelaide (The Wunderhold Girl, a foreign arabesque, in modern style) . Berlin 1808.
• The dream and the awakening. A fragment from the real world . Berlin 1809.
• The girl Wunderhold. A Western Romanesque in the new style . Leipzig 1810.
• Colors of the colorful earthly life. A collection of short stories and fragmentary family paintings . Liegnitz 1827.

literature

• Augusta von Goldstein in the Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 15, Part 1, pp. 259–261.
• Augusta von Goldstein in Karl Ludwig Friedrich Gödeke : Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources , Volume 3, 1st issue, p. 146.Dresden 1887.