Charlotte Embden
Charlotte Embden , née Heine, (born October 18, 1800 in Düsseldorf , † October 14, 1899 in Hamburg ) was a German salonnière and sister of Heinrich Heine .
Life
Charlotte Heine was the daughter of the cloth and manufacturing merchant Samson Heine (1764-1828) and his wife Betty (actually Peira), born von Geldern (1771-1859) . In addition to Heinrich Heine, she had two other brothers: Gustav and Maximilian. Like her brothers, Charlotte Heine was brought up in a liberal and enlightened manner, with her upbringing being largely taken over by her mother. She received her school education in Düsseldorf at a monastery school run by nuns. After the Samson Heines company went bankrupt in 1819, the family moved to Hamburg, where other relatives lived in addition to Salomon Heine and her brother Heinrich. Charlotte Heine came to the Hanseatic city in March 1820 with her mother and two brothers Gustav and Maximilian . The family, which was initially financially supported by Salomon Heine, in the meantime also lived in Bad Oldesloe and only from 1828 permanently in Hamburg.
On January 23, 1823, Charlotte Heine married the Hamburg merchant Moritz Embden on the Zollenspieker in the Vierlanden . She lived with him at Neuer Wall No. 167 and from 1827 on Jungfernstieg . The couple later lived on Grosse Theaterstrasse and on the Esplanade , house number 39. The couple had four daughters and a son, their daughter Marie (1835–1908) was later the Princess della Rocca.
After her death, the remains of Charlotte Embden were buried in the Jewish cemetery Bornkampsweg in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld .
Influence on Heinrich Heine and other artists
Heinrich Heine often stayed with his sister on his visits to Hamburg. The poet dedicated numerous works to her, including the 1824 poem “My Child We Were Children”, which dealt with childhood scenes from the parental home in Düsseldorf's Bolkerstraße. Charlotte became Heinrich Heine's closest family confidante, on whose behalf she negotiated with Julius Campe . The relationship between the siblings is recorded in numerous letters. After her brother's death in 1856, she received visits from numerous writers and literary historians, including Gustav Karpeles , but also from Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary , to whom she gave several autographs to Heine.
Charlotte Embden hosted a lively salon that was visited by numerous artists, including Albert Methfessel and Karl Gutzkow , especially from the late 1840s .
literature
- Dirk Brietzke : Embden, Charlotte. In: Kirsten Heinsohn (ed.): The Jewish Hamburg: a historical reference work. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0004-0 , p. 65 and 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search; online ).
- Dirk Brietzke: Embden, Charlotte . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 93-94 .
- Article EMBDEN, CHARLOTTE. In: Jewish Lexicon . Volume 2. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1927, Sp. 389 f. ( Digitized version ).
- J. Loewenberg: Heines Lottchen. Memories of Charlotte Embden-Heine . In: Jugend , Jg. 4 (1899), H. 50, S. 818/820 (PDF file; 11.47 MB).
- Charlotte Embden (obituary). In: Die Welt , 3rd year, issue 42 (October 20, 1899), p. 7 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to other information about 1802 or 1803. According to the obituary in the magazine Jugend ( online ), she had planned to celebrate her 99th birthday on October 18, 1899, so she assumed her date of birth was October 18, 1800. Since all family records were destroyed early in fires, this - as with all the other Heine siblings - is not documented.
- ↑ Illustration and location of the tombstone Charlotte Embden, geb. Heine at garten-der-frauen.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Embden, Charlotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heine, Sara; Heine, Charlotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German salonnière and sister of Heinrich Heine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1899 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |