Christiana Büsching

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Christiana Büsching (engraving from 1769)
Title page of the Exercises in Poetry (1752)

Christiana Büsching (also Christiane Büsching , nee Polyxena Christiane Auguste Dilthey ; born December 11, 1728 in Köthen , Anhalt, † April 22, 1777 in Berlin ) was a German poet .

Life

Polyxena Christiane Auguste Dilthey was the daughter of the stable master Joh. Heinr. Dilthey from Köthen, her mother was Agnes Kath. Dilthey, née Weidemann. The theologian Leopold Friedrich August Dilthey († 1767 in Saint Petersburg) was her brother, the preacher and songwriter Isaac Daniel Dilthey (1752-1793) was her nephew.

She was considered a woman of intellect and culture, played the piano and spoke French well. From childhood she was in contact with nobles. Her parents were in the favor of Princess Charlotte Fried. von Nassau-Siegen , who married the ruling Count of the House of Schaumburg-Lippe . This prompted her to move to Stadthagen , where she and her mother raised three of the count's daughters. Christiane Louise von Rochow was one of her friends .

She published several works. With the support of Franz Dominikus Häberlin , the University of Helmstedt awarded her the poet's crown in 1751 . The German Society of Göttingen made her an honorary member in the same year. She was the ninth female honorary member of the society that did not accept women as members. She was recommended by the theologian and geographer Anton Friedrich Büsching , a childhood friend of her brother, to whom she had been engaged since 1750. On April 9, 1751, he wrote to Rudolf Wedekind, the Society's secretary: “Perhaps you consider the maiden Polyxena Christiane Auguste Dilthey in Stadhagen [...] worthy of accepting you among the members of your German Society. She writes freely like a learned man, and claims a respectable place among the learned women […]. ”In addition, she was a member of the noble well society in Karlsbad . At the wedding of her brother Leopold Friedrich August Dilthey on June 15, 1751 in Nuremberg, which she was unable to attend, she wrote:

You only one who has the same blood relationship with me,
my brother! whose happy happiness moves my sisterly heart.
I see there in distant borders,
The greatest of your festivals shine,
How gladly, oh gladly! I would be there.
Alone a space of many miles,
Prevents me from rushing to you,
Only my spirit alone is this journey free.

Anton Friedrich Büsching published poems by his fiancés in 1752 under the title Exercises in Poetry . On March 21, 1755 she married Büsching in Göttingen; after the marriage she no longer published. From 1766 they lived in Berlin. The couple had seven children, including Johann Stephan Gottfried Büsching , long-time Lord Mayor of Berlin.

Christiana Büsching suffered from a chronic illness; her husband lovingly cared for her. In order to satisfy her desire for walks, he bought a house with a garden. She died in early 1777 at the age of 48; her husband had her buried in their home garden near Berlin. After her death Büsching wrote a biography about his wife under the title To the memory of the woman Polyxene Christiane Auguste Büsching geb. Dilthey, from your friend and husband Anton Friedrich Büsching , the second edition of which appeared in Berlin in the year of her death. He married again in December 1777 and had six other children with his second wife.

Later reception

In his "literary historical sketch" of Germany's poets and writers from 1882, Heinrich Gross, professor at the German State High School in Trieste , mentions Büsching's poems and calls them "insignificant".

Works

  • Rehearsals of poetic exercises in a woman's room . Korte, Altona 1751
  • The maiden Polyxenen Christianen Augusten Dilthey, Kaiserl. crowned poet, and honorary member of the Königl. German society in Göttingen, exercises in poetry . Carl Christian Kümmel, Halle 1752 . ( urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 1-437095 )

literature

Web links

Commons : Christiana Büsching  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data at fembio.org
  2. ↑ Mention in: Wilhelm Michel:  Büsching, Anton Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 3 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ DNB 116128224 , Leopold Friedrich August Dilthey. In: Catalog of the German National Library
  4. ^ Isaac Daniel Dilthey in the catalog of the German National Library
  5. ↑ a b c d Bulletin of the sponsorship group library for educational history research ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.2 MB) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2011, p. 46 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  6. ↑ a b Friedrich Schlichtegroll: Supplement volume of the Nekrologs for the years 1790, 91, 92 and 93, containing backward biographies, additions and registers . Gotha 1798, pp. 82-85, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  7. ↑ a b c Bulletin of the sponsorship group library for research in the history of education ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.2 MB) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2011, pp. 36–37 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  8. ↑ Foundation, practice and development of the "German Society" . In: Dieter Cherubim, Ariane Walsdorf: Language criticism as enlightenment. The German Society in Göttingen in the 18th century. (PDF; 2.1 MB) Göttingen 2005 ISBN 3-930457-48-2 , p. 148, with illustration of the diploma on p. 147
  9. ↑ Foundation, practice and development of the "German Society" . (PDF; 2.1 MB), p. 150
  10. ↑ The maiden Polyxenen Christianen Augusten Dilthey, Kaiserl. crowned poet, and honorary member of the Königl. German society in Göttingen, exercises in poetry, p. 42 digitized
  11. ^ Büsching (Anton Friedrich) . In: Johann Samuelersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber (Hrsg.): General encyclopedia of the sciences and arts. Dreizehnter Theil , Leipzig 1824, pp. 385-586; also as e-text at Wikisource
  12. ↑ Information sheet of the library for research into the history of education ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.2 MB) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2011, p. 38 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  13. ↑ Information sheet of the library for research into the history of education ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.2 MB) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2011, p. 51 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  14. ^ Wilhelm Michel:  Büsching, Anton Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 3 f. ( Digitized version ).
  15. ^ Heinrich Gross: Germany's female poets and writers. A literary-historical sketch . Vienna 1882, p. 48 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Büsching, Christiana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Büsching, Christiane; Dilthey, Polyxena Christiane Auguste (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Koethen , Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1777
Place of death Berlin