Caroline Adelheid Cornelia von Baudissin

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Caroline Adelheid Cornelia Countess von Baudissin (born January 21, 1759 in Dresden , † January 17, 1826 in Knoop , Duchy of Schleswig ) was a German writer .

Life

Caroline Countess Baudissin came from the Schimmelmann family, who were culturally interested and committed to the Enlightenment . She was the daughter of the businessman Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann , who had become rich through large cotton and sugar cane plantations in the Danish West Indies and through the slave trade, and his wife, Caroline Tugendreich Friedeborn (1730–1795), and had six siblings, two of whom were also well known : Your eldest brother Ernst Heinrich Graf von Schimmelmann became Danish finance minister; her sister Friederike Juliane Countess von Reventlow held a literary circle at Gut Emkendorf , the so-called Emkendorfer Circle .

Good knoop

Her father, who came from a middle-class family, looked for opportunities for his children to marry into the nobility. In 1776 he bought the indebted Count von Baudissin his family property Gut Knoop and gave it to Caroline as a dowry when she married Heinrich Friedrich Graf von Baudissin (1753-1818). After her father's death, she and her siblings inherited the profits from his Caribbean sugar plantations. With this money, she and her husband built the classicist-style mansion on the Eider Canal by Axel Bundsen in the years 1795–1800 instead of the old moated castle.

In 1791 she met Johann Gottfried Herder in Karlsbad and became his dear friend. The poem To Cornelia is dedicated to her. As a writer, she made herself known through tragedies and stories. The work Die Dorfgesellschaft, an instructional reader for the people (Kiel 1792, 2 vols.) Was aimed at the country folk who owned their property.

According to tradition, the gambling addict countess is said to have brought her family into financial difficulties by risking and losing either the manor house or a “nightly favor” when playing cards. Caroline decided against the night of love, befitting her class. The settlement of their gambling debts and other outstanding debts ultimately led to the sale of the property of the Baudissins to the Danish businessman Ingward Martin Clausen in 1869.

ancestry

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Diedrich Jacob Schimmelmann (1683–1743)
businessman and councilor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann (1724–1782)
businessman and count
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Esther Elisabeth Ludendorff (1684–1752)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Caroline Adelheid Cornelia von Baudissin (1760–1826)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Caroline Tugendreich Friedeborn (1730–1795)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


progeny

From the marriage with Heinrich Friedrich von Baudissin:

  • Elisabeth Caroline Henriette (June 26, 1777 - December 19, 1864) ∞ Jens Peter Neergaard (December 7, 1764 - January 7, 1848)
  • Anna Sophie (December 20, 1778 - December 22, 1853) ∞ Major General Heinrich von Reventlow (September 30, 1763 - January 31, 1848), parents of Friedrich von Reventlou
  • Wolf Heinrich Ludwig, died young
  • Wolf Heinrich Ludwig, died young
  • Magdalene Caroline Josephine, died young
  • Friederike Juliane (January 9, 1784 - March 15, 1836) ∞ Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Baudissin (January 30, 1789 - April 4, 1878)
  • Amalie Friederike, died young
  • Friedrich Carl (November 4, 1786 - March 26, 1866) ∞ Maria Therese Freiin von Mylius (March 28, 1794 - April 17, 1880), daughter of Anton Ulrich von Mylius
  • Charlotte Louise Josephine (January 27, 1788; † February 13, 1830) ∞ Count Magnus Karl von Bernstorff (* June 13, 1781; † December 8, 1836)
  • Christian Karl (March 4, 1790; † April 9, 1868) ∞ Magdalene Henriette Kunninger (* January 6, 1788; † April 4, 1864)
  • Joseph Franz Christian (born January 9, 1797; † April 5, 1871) ∞ Julia Friederike Josephina von Reventlow (born August 21, 1798; † July 3, 1881)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gartenrouten-sh.de/index.php?id=gutsparkknoop Gutspark Knoop
  2. ↑ http://gw4.geneanet.org/cvpolier?lang=nl;p=anton+ulrich;n=von+mylius
personal data
SURNAME Baudissin, Caroline Adelheid Cornelia von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudissin, Caroline Adelheid Cornelia Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1826
Place of death Knoop