Caroline von Humboldt
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Caroline von Humboldt (born February 23, 1766 in Minden ; † March 26, 1829 in Berlin ), née Carolina Friederica von Dacheröden , was the daughter of the Prussian Chamber President Karl Friedrich von Dacheröden and the wife of the scholar Wilhelm von Humboldt .
Life
Caroline came from an old Thuringian noble family . She was the daughter of the Prussian Chamber President Karl Friedrich von Dacheröden († November 20, 1809) and his wife Ernestine Friderike Countess von Hopfgarten († May 1, 1774). Her only brother Ernst Ludwig Wilhelm von Dacheröden died childless in 1806. She herself grew up in Erfurt and on her parents' estates in Burgörner and Auleben . Her childhood friends were Caroline von Wolhaben , who was one of her best friends all her life, and her sister Charlotte von Lengefeld , who later became Friedrich Schiller's wife .
On June 29, 1791 she married Wilhelm von Humboldt in Erfurt.
They had an unconventional marriage with mutual freedoms. Several times they lived apart for a few years, but from 1819 they lived together again on the Humboldt family estate at Schloss Tegel .
At the beginning of their marriage (1794–1797) they lived in Jena in close proximity to the Schillers.
Due to the professional activities of her husband, but partly of her own accord, she lived for several years in Paris (1797–1801, 1804), Rome (1802–1803, 1805–1810, 1817–1819) and Vienna (1810–1814) where her house soon became a social hub. From Paris she went on a seven-month trip to Spain (with three children), during which she cataloged and described Spanish works of art. Goethe valued these works very much and published some of them.
Her favorite city was Rome, where she had special contact with the German artists living there ( Gottlieb Schick , Christian Friedrich Tieck , Bertel Thorvaldsen , Wilhelm von Schadow , Karl Wilhelm Wach ), whom she sponsored and from whom she acquired works. She had an intense friendship with the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch . Angelika Kauffmann and Ludwig I of Bavaria also frequented her house .
Caroline also ran a kind of literary salon in Berlin , where the greats of her time, statesmen, scientists and writers, met. Through her extensive correspondence with important personalities, she participated in the current discussions and had a significant influence on her husband's writings.
Caroline and Wilhelm von Humboldt had eight children:
- Caroline (1792-1837)
- Wilhelm (1794–1803)
- Theodor (1797–1871)
- Adelheid (1800-1856)
- Gabriele (1802-1887)
- Louise (1804)
- Gustav (1806-1807)
- Hermann (1809-1870)
After her death, Caroline von Humboldt was temporarily buried in the churchyard in the village of Tegel and finally buried there after completion of the grave that Karl Friedrich Schinkel had designed especially for her in the Tegel Castle Park. Since then, the grave has been considered a family grave of the von Humboldt family.
Honors
- Caroline von Humboldt Prize of the Humboldt University, Berlin
- Caroline-von-Humboldt-Weg, Berlin-Mitte
- Caroline-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium in Minden, 1988 affiliation to the Herder-Gymnasium Minden
literature
- Dagmar von Gersdorff : Caroline von Humboldt. A biography. Insel, Frankfurt a. Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-17502-5 .
- Hermann Hettler: Karoline von Humboldt. A picture of life created from her letters. Koehler & Amelang, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7338-0305-1 .
- Hazel Rosenstrauch : eloquent and equal. Caroline and Wilhelm von Humboldt. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
- Beate Neubauer : Beauty, grace and spirit: Elisabeth, Caroline, Gabriele and Constanze. The women of the von Humboldt family. Ebersbach & Simon, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9387-4039-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Caroline von Humboldt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Caroline von Humboldt in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors with a comprehensive overview of the literature
- The correspondence between Wilhelm and Caroline von Humboldt
- Astrid Reuter: Blickwechsel - Romantic images of women. In: Association for the history of Berlin (ed.): Mitteilungen , April 2002 edition.
- Dorothee Nolte : Caroline von Humboldt. The shimmering wife of the university founder. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 2, 2011.
- Hazel Rosenstrauch : Caroline von Humboldt. In: FemBio of the Institute for Women's Biography Research (biography, literature and sources).
Individual evidence
- ^ Anna von Sydow (Ed.): Gabriele von Bülow. Daughter of Wilhelm von Humboldt's Berlin 1913, Mittler & Sohn
- ^ Steffen Raßloff : Hospitable house. Great spirits were once guests in Haus Dacheröden am Anger and Wilhelm von Humboldt married his wife Caroline von Dacheröden. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , December 1, 2012.
- ^ Caroline von Humboldt Prize of the Humboldt University, Berlin
- ↑ Caroline-von-Humboldt-Weg, Berlin-Mitte ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Reviews: Judith von Sternburg: Book about the Humboldt couple. The story of Bill and Li. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 29, 2009; Ulrike Baureithel: The Humboldt couple. A forum of love. In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 23, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Humboldt, Caroline von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dacheröden, Carolina Friederica von (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of the Prussian Chamber President Karl Friedrich von Dacheröden and wife of Wilhelm von Humboldt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1829 |
| Place of death | Berlin |