Charlotte Pistorius

Charlotte Pistorius (born November 5, 1777 in Reinkenhagen as Charlotte Helene Henriette Pritzbuer , † September 14, 1850 in Garz / Rügen ) was a German poet. She belonged to the circle of friends around Ernst Moritz Arndt .

Life

She was the daughter of the Reinkenhagen pastor Theodor Pritzbuer (1731-1819) and his third wife Helena Dorothea Margarete von Hellström († 1816). The family moved to Garz auf Rügen in 1787 , where the father became a pastor at St. Petri Church . Inspired by her parents' house, Charlotte Pritzbuer acquired an extensive self-taught education.

On September 3, 1797, she married Johann Philipp Pistorius (1767-1823), the second son of the Poseritz provost Hermann Andreas Pistorius and an official assistant to her sick father. After the death of her father-in-law in 1798, her brother-in-law Christian Pistorius (1765–1823) was accepted into the young couple's house. Her husband suffered from a lung disease from 1807, from which he died in 1823. The marriage had remained childless. Her brother-in-law died in the same year, so that she lived alone in the rectory until 1824, before moving into the preacher's widow's house. From 1825 to 1826 she ran the household of the widowed professor Karl Schildener in Greifswald , but then returned to Garz. She devoted herself to charitable causes, such as the education of the lower classes of the population. In 1833 she took in her brother-in-law Karl Pistorius, whom she looked after until his death in 1844.

Charlotte Pistorius exchanged extensive letters. She had known Ernst Moritz Arndt since her youth and became friends later. Arndt dedicated several poems to her. As early as 1796 and 1797 she corresponded with Ehrenfried von Willich , a later friend of Friedrich Schleiermacher . In the letters, both of them commented on new literary publications, among other things. She met Schleiermacher in 1804 when he visited Rügen on the occasion of Willich's wedding. She also talked to him about literature - including Novalis - and religion. She was friends with Charlotte von Kathen , who had been in correspondence with Arndt and Schleiermacher before. The Mayor of Stralsund, Karl Gustav Fabricius , encouraged her to conduct her own studies on the history of Rügen. The Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology she sent essays and drawings that in the partially Baltic studies were used. She also wrote a biography of her father. She left a collection of poems and poetry drafts.

literature

• Erich Gülzow : Home letters Ernst Moritz Arndts. In: Rügisch-Pommerscher Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Pommersche Jahrbücher 3rd supplementary volume, Julius Abel, Greifswald 1919, p. 3f.
• Adolf Häckermann :  Pistorius, Charlotte . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 195 f.

Web links

• Literature about Charlotte Pistorius in the state bibliography MV