Elisabeth Johanna von Weston

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Elisabeth Joanna Westonia (Johann Georg Balzer 1772)

Elisabeth Johanna von Weston (also Westonia ) (born November 2, 1582 in London , † November 23, 1612 in Prague ) was an English-Bohemian naturalist and poet of late humanism .

Life

Elisabeth Johanna von Weston comes from an old noble English family. After her father's early death, her mother married the alchemist Edward Kelley . He entered the service of Rudolf II and bought an estate in Brüx . There Elisabeth received lessons in Latin from Joh. Hammon . After the stepfather's death in 1597, the widow and her daughter moved to Prague to take care of the inheritance. The death of her brother Johann Franz Weston (* 1580; † November 4, 1600), who had studied at the University of Ingolstadt , prompted her to write poetry. She found friends and supporters in Georg Barthold Pontanus von Breitenberg, Georg Carolides , Wilhelm von Rosenberg , Julius Caesar Scaliger , Justus Lipsius , Jan van der Does and Paul Melissus . In 1601 she received a "poetic laurel wreath" from Melissius, Scaliger and Lipsius. In 1603 she married Johann Leo. She had seven children. She died while giving birth on November 23, 1612 in Prague. She was buried in the cemetery of St. Thomas Church . She wrote epigrams , odes , elegies , fables and distiches .

In 1772 the engraver Johann Georg Balzer made a portrait of her.

Works

  • Poëmeta . Sciurinis, Francofurti Oderam 1602, Volume 1, digitized ; Volume 2, digitized
  • Parthenicon . Pauli Sessius, Prague 1606, Liber 1, digitized ; Liber 2, digitized ; Liber 3, digitized
  • Elisabethæ Joannæ Westoniæ, Nobilis Anglæ, & Poëtriæ longè celeberrimæ, Opuscula, quæ quidem haberi potuerunt. Nunc cum Præfatione, succinctam Illustris Auctoris memoriam & vitæ delineationem complexâ […] edita studio ac operâ Joannis Christophori Kalckhoff, dicti Daum, IU Licentiati & Serenissimorum Principum Hasso-Rhenofelsensium in Cancellaria Rotenbergensi Consiliarii . Cramer. Francofurti 1724, digitized

literature

  • Westonia, Elisabeth, Johanna . In: JJH Czikann , Franz Gräffer (Ed.): Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie, or alphabetical presentation of the peculiarities of the Austrian Empire […] . Volume 6, F. Beck'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Vienna 1837, p. 84, digitized
  • Julius Vincenz von Krombholz (Hrsg.): Topographical pocket book of Prague initially for naturalists and doctors . Prague 1837, p. 144, digitized
  • Weston, Elisabeth Johanna . In: Karl Herloßsohn (Ed.): Ladies Conversations Lexicon. Volume 10, [without location] 1838, pp. 427-428, digitized
  • Anton Rabhann: Elisabeth Johanna Weston. A forgotten poet of the 16th century . In: Communications from the Association for the History of Germans in the Sudetenland . Volume 32, Brockhaus, Prague, Leipzig, Vienna 1894, pp. 305-316
  • Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Weston, Elisabeth Johanna von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 193-196.
  • Weston, Elisabeth Johanna . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 428 ( digitized version ).
  • Louise Schleiner: Elizabeth Weston, alchemist's step-daughter and published poet . In: Cauda Pavonis . Volume 10, No. 2, 1991, pp. 8-16, ISSN  1059-8308
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann : Westron, Westonia, Elisabeth Johanna von . In: Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area . Volume 12, 2nd, completely revised. Edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-022038-4 , p. 384, digitized
  • Weston, Elisabeth Johanna von . In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie . Volume 10, Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-23170-9 , p. 460.
  • Donald Cheney, Brenda M. Hosington (Eds.): Collected writings. Elizabeth Jane Weston . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2000, ISBN 0-8020-4472-7
  • Rosemary Hilmar, Johannes Diethart: Farewell to the Kaiser. Mourning poems by Elisabeth Joan Weston (Elisabeth Westonia), an Englishwoman at the court of Rudolf II, from the years 1611–1612 . In: Yearbook of the Austrian Goethe Society . Literatur Verlag Münster, Vienna 2004, pp. 187–205, ISSN  1812-836X

Web links

photos

Commons : Elizabeth Jane Weston  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia .
  2. ↑ Julius Vincenz von Krombholz.
personal data
SURNAME Weston, Elisabeth Johanna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westonia, Elizabetha Johanna; Leon, Elizabeth Jane (later name); Vestonie, Alžbeta Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-Bohemian poet and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1582
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1612
Place of death Prague