Elisabeth Campe

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Elisabeth Campe , also Elise , b. Hoffmann (born June 12, 1786 in Hamburg ; † February 27, 1873 ibid) was a German salonnière and writer.

Live and act

Elisabeth was the daughter of the bookseller Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann and grew up in a house where Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus , Georg Heinrich Sieveking , Valentin Meyer and Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, among others , were frequent guests.

On December 6, 1806 she married the bookseller August Campe . In 1810 the two bookstores were combined to form Hoffmann & Campe . Her house became the focal point of busy social intercourse . She was particularly friends with Johanna Margaretha Sieveking, geb. Reimarus, Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Meyer , Johann Nikolaus Böhl von Faber and Louise Reichard.

With her husband she made numerous trips to the Leipzig Trade Fair and to Karlsbad , where she met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . In the house of Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann in Jena, she made the acquaintance of Johann Diederich Gries from Hamburg, who was one of her close friends after his return to Hamburg.

During the difficult time of the French occupation for Hamburg as well as for her own household , she used a patriotic spirit to help and alleviate everywhere . The events during the renewed occupation in 1813 and the reign of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout until May 1814, she described in diary-like letters to Böhl von Faber. Never sent, it published it anonymously under the title Hamburgs Extraordinary Events and Fates in 1813 and 1814 in July 1814 - the first work Hoffmann & Campe published after the French era.

Gravestone publisher and printer

She also published a number of biographical essays, albeit regularly anonymously.

She had been a widow since 1837. In 1860 she went blind; the following year, her foster daughter Elise Friederike Reclam-Campe (1810–1861) died. Elisabeth Campe bequeathed the important collection of manuscripts, around 5,000 autographs and 600 portraits of outstanding men and women from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century, to the Hamburg City Library ; She left the city's charitable foundations the sum of 16,500 thalers. Both during her lifetime and in her estate, she donated paintings and sculptures to the Hamburger Kunsthalle , including a relief painting by Heinrich Brockhaus ', created by the sculptor Ernst Rietschel .

In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , the publisher and printer's collective grave commemorates Elisabeth Campe and her husband Franz August Gottlob Campe (together with Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann , Johann Heinrich Besser , Johann Wilhelm Mauke, among others ).

Works

  • Hamburg's extraordinary events and fates in the years 1813 and 1814: during the first occupation by General Tettenborn until the general peace. Hamburg: in the BG Hoffmannschen Buchhandlung, 1814 ( digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library )
  • August Campe , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen 14, p. 628
  • From the life of Johann Diederich Gries . Hamburg 1832 ( digitized version )
  • In memory of FLW Meyer, Schröder's biographer. 2 parts, Braunschweig 1847
( Digitized version of volume 1, copy from the Bavarian State Library )
( Digitized from Volume 2, copy from the Bavarian State Library )
  • Attempt of a life sketch by Johann Nikolas Böhl von Faber, based on his own letters. Leipzig: Brockhaus (printed as a manuscript) 1858 ( digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library )

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Elisabeth Campe  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ADB (lit.)
  2. ^ Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Klose:  Bohl von Faber, Johann Nikolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 59-61.
  3. ↑ ADB
  4. ↑ Campe Collection (CS), estate and autograph collection ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hamburg State and University Library, accessed on January 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sub.uni-hamburg.de
  5. ↑ See the directory of the collection of paintings and sculptures in the Kunsthalle. Hamburg: Grefe & Tiedemann 1876, pp. 8, 14, 27, 68, 83, 103
personal data
SURNAME Campe, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elise; Hoffmann (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German salonnière and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1873
Place of death Hamburg