Clara Ansel

Julie Philippine Clara Auguste Anschel , b. Cappel (born September 23, 1780 in Helmstedt ; † September 30, 1826 there ) was a German writer and actress .

Life

Anschel was born in Helmstedt as the daughter of the doctor and councilor Wilhelm Friedrich Cappel . Her brothers Ludwig Christoph Wilhelm Cappel and Johann Friedrich Ludwig Cappel also worked as doctors. In 1811 she married the doctor Justus Wilhelm Ferdinand Anschel, with whom she converted to Christianity in 1812 . Anschel worked as both an actress and a writer. She published her works under the pseudonym "Theodora" or anonymously with the addition "from a lady". Ansel's stories have appeared in Braunschweiger Magazin , in Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker's Neue Erholungen , in Becker's paperbacks for sociable pleasure and in Friedrich Ludewig Bouterweck's Vesta .

The clergyman Andreas Friedrich Gottlob Glaser was her brother-in-law.

Works (selection)

The old man (1809)
Satisfaction (1810)
The friends. A story in letters (1810)
Little novels and stories from the realm of poetry and truth. Fleckeisen, Helmstädt 1811.
How do we honor the memory of those who died prematurely in a way worthy of them? (appeared in Braunschweig magazine No. 51)

literature

Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century. First part A – L. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1823, pp. 10-11. (Reprinted by Olms, Heidelberg / New York 1978, ISBN 3-487-06581-9 ).
Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries . A lexicon. Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, p. 7, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 .
Günter Scheel: Anschel, Auguste Juliane Clara Philippine. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 29 .

Individual evidence

^ Günter Scheel: Anschel, Auguste Juliane Clara Philippine. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 29 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ansel, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Theodora (pseudonym); Anschel, Julie Philippine Clara Auguste (full name); Cappel, Clara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH	Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 1826
Place of death	Helmstedt

[1] Günter Scheel: Anschel, Auguste Juliane Clara Philippine. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 29 .