Caroline von Bentheim-Steinfurt

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Caroline Ferdinandine Marie Elisabeth Magdalene von Bentheim-Steinfurt (born January 25, 1759 in Burgsteinfurt , † January 8, 1834 in Büdingen ) was a German writer .

Life

She was the youngest daughter of Karl Paul Ernst von Bentheim-Steinfurt and Charlotte Sophie von Nassau-Siegen. Her mother died in 1759, so that Caroline von Bentheim-Steinfurt was raised by her aunt, Princess Charlotte Friederike Amalie von Anhalt-Köthen. As a countess she was part of the German aristocracy. Caroline von Bentheim-Steinfurt was already living in Büdingen in 1792, where she died unmarried of a lung stroke in 1834 .

Lüder Tiedemann, preacher in Stadthagen , published Caroline von Bentheim-Steinfurt's Creed, which she made publicly in the Reformed Church there, in print in 1774. Bentheim-Steinfurt was in correspondence with, among others, Jung-Stilling and wrote tragedies and occasional poems himself. In 1819 she was included as one of around 100 women writers in Friedrich Rassmann's gallery of German poets, novelists, storytellers, translators from modern languages, anthologists and editors of fiction and received an entry in Johann Georg Meusel's Das schuled Teutschland . Schindel referred to her in his lexicon The German writers of the nineteenth century as "a woman who is distinguished by her mind and good heart".

literature

  • Bentheim-Steinfurth . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 21.
  • Susanne Kord: A look behind the scenes. German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries . Stuttgart, Metzler 1992, ISBN 3476008355 , p. 333.
  • Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century. Third part: containing addenda and corrections . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, p. 14.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Freiherr von der Goltz: Contributions to the history of the Evangelical Lutheran community in Elberfeld . In: Monthly for the Protestant Church of the Rhine Province and Westphalia . January to June 1854. Marcus, Bonn 1854, p. 175.
  2. ^ Munich political newspaper . Fifth and thirtieth year. No. 17, January 20, 1834, p. 144.
  3. ↑ See review of the book in: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , Volume 3–4, May 1820, Col. 418.
  4. ^ Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German writers of the nineteenth century. Third part: containing addenda and corrections . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Bentheim-Steinfurt, Caroline von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bentheim-Steinfurt, Caroline Ferdinandine Marie Elisabeth Magdalene von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgsteinfurt
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1834
Place of death Büdingen