Barbara Sendtner

Anna Barbara "Betty" Sendtner , née Wolf (born December 3, 1792 in Zurich ; † October 3, 5 or 6, 1840 in Munich ), was a Swiss- born German writer , translator and editor .

Life

Barbara Sendtner was born as the daughter of Peter Philipp Wolf , who was active in Switzerland at the time of her birth, and his wife Elisabeth, née Sytz. She had two siblings, a younger sister was the painter Louise Wolf . At the age of six, Barbara tried to compose poetry, for whom the parents still provided a good extracurricular education due to the lack of educational facilities for girls at the time. In 1802 the family went to Leipzig and in 1803 they moved on to Munich. When she was 16 years old, her father drowned himself in the Isar . After his death, his mother continued to publish the Münchner Zeitung . Barbara, who had already supported her father in his work during his lifetime, continued part of the correspondence.

When the Napoleonic War broke out, the mother and her daughters went back to Zurich to visit relatives there. This failed due to the war and she returned to Munich six weeks later with her daughters and an unmarried sister.

In 1812 Barbara Wolf married the journalist Jakob Sendtner , with whom she had published the society paper for educated classes since 1811 and had previously edited its Munich political newspaper . From 1812 to 1815 she worked at the publishing house of the Friedrich Justin Bertuch in Weimar published journal for literature, art, luxury and fashion with, but had this activity as a mother of several children adjust. Nevertheless, several poems were written during this time. Barbara Sendtner, who also acquired Italian, French and Greek language skills, published her Fénelon translation, On the Upbringing of Daughters, at the Fleischmann Verlag in Munich in 1828 . Comprised of a letter by the same author to a lady of class about the upbringing of her only daughter.

In the paperback Cölestina - Eine Festgabe für Frauen und Jungfrauen (1838) she published - even raised a Protestant - a nearly 40-page biographical sketch about Johanna Franziska von Chantal . In the weekly gazette for the catholic clergy one could read about this in November 1837:

“Betty Sendtner, the devout daughter of the well-known Jesuit enemy Wolf, wholesaled the shadow of her father through genuinely Catholic attitudes, which she describes in a biographical sketch: 'Johanna Franziska v. Fremiot, Baroness of Chantal 'resigns. "

She translated Geraldine, or Guided Tours of a Soul , from English , a three-volume work about an English woman who converted to the Catholic religion, originally written by Elizabeth Constantia Agnew, alias Emily C. Agnew (ECA). In connection with this work she appears in the literature partly under the pseudonym "Fanny Sendtner". Another biography she translated was Life of the Blessed Virgin by Abbé Orsini , recommended in the Herald of Faith No. 84 (1839) and in the religious journal Sion No. 98.

Her last work was the translation from French about the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ, based on the original by Johannes Gerson . The work was originally intended for the gift of God . But after Abbé Aringer had already delivered a translation to the editors, she published her translation with Pustet in Passau .

family

The marriage with Jakob Sendtner resulted in a total of seven children, the most famous among them the botanist Otto Sendtner and the lawyer Theodor von Sendtner . One daughter, who worked as an educator in the Pocci house , died in 1846 at the age of 26, another married a mechanic named Nickl from Traunstein , son Hippolyth became a mechanic, wanted to emigrate and has disappeared, and a daughter named Ottilie, born in 1816, died in 1894, unable to live Neuberghausen Abbey . Daughter Alphonsine (1818-1894) was the second wife of the businessman and lawyer Joseph Riezler . From this marriage the historian Sigmund von Riezler , the Bavarian major general z. D. Emanuel Riezler and the painter Albrecht Riezler .

death

Barbara Sendtner died after a long illness. Your exact date of death is given differently. While the website of the Altes Südfriedhof in Munich - where her husband's grave is also located - states October 3rd, Wilhelm Schamberger names the 5th of the month in his necrologue in the Herold of Faith . In the obituary in the Swiss church newspaper , October 6th is mentioned as the death time at 6 p.m.

literature

• Sendtner (Barbara). In: The German women writers of the nineteenth century. Volume 2: M-Z. FA Brockhaus , Leipzig 1825, pp. 307-313.
• Wilhelm Schamberger: Manifolds. Betty Sendtner. A necrology. In: Herald of Faith. 1840, No. 45, Col. 719 f. ( Digitized in the Google book search).
• Church news: Bavaria. Obituary in: Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung . 1840, No. 42, October 17, 1840, Col. 678 f. ( Digitized in the Google book search).

Web links

• Literature by Barbara Sendtner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Works by and about Barbara Sendtner  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sendtner, Anna Barbara / Betty (vw) / Wolf (gb). Alter Südfriedhof Munich ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Wilhelm Schamberger; see references
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Church news: Baiern. ; see references
4. ↑ Jane Frances de Fremiot, Baroness de Chantal. A biographical sketch. In: Cölestina. A festival for women and virgins. Theodor Bergan, Aschaffenburg, 1838, pp. 148-195. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
5. ^ Literary advertisements. In: Weekly Gazette for the Catholic Clergy No. 92, November 18, 1837.
6. ↑ Geraldine or Guided Tours of a Soul (by an Englishwoman who converted to the Catholic religion) from English. Karl Kollmann'sche Buchhandlung, Augsburg 1838/1839.
7. ↑ Geraldine or Guided Tours of a Soul (by an Englishwoman who converted to the Catholic religion) from English. In: Jakob Buchmann: Popularsymbolik, or: Comparative representation of the religious differences between Catholics and Protestants according to their confessional writings. Volume 1, Schott and Thielmann, Kirchheim 1844, p. 35.
8. ↑ Geraldine, or History of the Leadership of a Soul. Volume 2, Kollmann, 1847. ( limited preview in Google book search)
9. ^ Adolf Roth: Siegmund v. Riezler's ancestors. ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The family researcher in Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. Volume I, Issue 20, December 1954, pp. 300-305.
10. ^ Christian Lankes, Wolfram Funk : Munich as a garrison in the 19th century. The capital and residence city as the location of the Bavarian Army of Elector Max IV Joseph until the turn of the century. Mittler Verlag, 1993, p. 566.
11. ↑ Riezler, Albrecht. In: Ellen Hastaba: Tirols Künstler 1927. In: Schlern-Schriften, 319. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7030-0365-0 , p. 285.