Dorothea Wehrs
Dorothea Catharina Elisabeth Wehrs married Spangenberg (born February 10, 1755 in Göttingen , † June 18, 1808 ibid) was a German poet and non-fiction author.
Life
Dorothea Wehrs was the daughter of an official. Johann Thomas Ludwig Wehrs and Georg Friedrich Wehrs were her older brothers. Through her brother Johann Thomas Ludwig Wehrs, she found access to the Göttingen Hainbund in the vicinity of which she was also called the "violet under the rose bush". Under the pseudonym Aemilia and under her maiden name, she published poems and songs in the Göttingen Musenalmanach . The song Ruhig ist des Tod's Schlummer (1782), which was set to music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann , became famous. Under her married name Spangenberg, she later also wrote a household non-fiction book. She published articles in the last years of her life and posthumously in the Hannoversche Magazin . She was friends and corresponded with the writer Friderika Baldinger .
Dorothea Wehrs married the Göttingen professor Georg August Spangenberg on January 13, 1781 . The two had ten children, including the sons Ernst Peter Johann Spangenberg and Johann Georg Spangenberg .
literature
- Christian Friedrich Harless : The merits of women in the natural sciences, health and medicine, as well as in regional, national and human studies, from the earliest times to the newest: a contribution to the history of spiritual culture, and natural and medical science in particular , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1830, p. 231
- Friedrich Christian Rassmann : Brief literary dictionary of the deceased German poets and writers belonging to beautiful literature in eight periods, from 1137 to 1824 , 1826, p. 343
- Friedrich Rassmann, Johann Wilhelm Sigismund Lindner: Brief Lexicon of German pseudonymous writers , Nauck, 1830 p. 5
- Heinrich Gross: Germany's female poets and writers , p. 51
- Hans Tütken, Johannes Tütken: Privatdozenten im Schatten der Georgia Augusta: Biographical materials for the Privatdozenten of the summer semester 1812. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2005, p. 556. Digitized.
- Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel : The German women writers of the nineteenth century : M - Z, Volume 2, Brockhaus, 1825 p. 332 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ruth P. Dawson: The contested Quill: Literature by women in Germany, 1770-1800 , University of Delaware Press, 2002
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wehrs, Dorothea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wehrs, Dorothea Catharina Elisabeth (full name); Spangenberg, Dorothea (married name); Aemilia (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1755 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1808 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |