Ernestine Voss

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Ernestine Voss in 1797, by Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner

Ernestine Voss (born on 31 January 1756 as Marie Christine Ernestine Boie in Meldorf , died on 10. March 1834 in Heidelberg ) was the wife of Johann Heinrich Voss . Like her husband, she was literary; In addition, her numerous letters give a vivid picture of the life and environment of the Voss family.

Life

Ernestine was one of twelve children of the Meldorfer preacher and later provost of Flensburg , Johann Friedrich Boie. His family belonged to the Pretty Families , the Hanoverian upper class.

Her older brother Heinrich Christian Boie was well acquainted with Johann Heinrich Voss , whom she met in 1774 after a long correspondence. Due to Voss' financial situation, the marriage did not take place until July 15, 1777. The couple's acquaintances described married life as harmonious and idyllic; Ernestine's focus on her outstanding gardening, which made all the poet's stations bloom, was particularly noted. As the dormant pole of the marriage, Ernestine Voss mediated between acquaintances of the quick-tempered husband. For example, she established warm relationships with Charlotte von Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , whom the couple often received at home around 1803.

Five sons came from her marriage to Voss:

  • Friedrich Leopold Voss (* July 12, 1778 Wandsbeck, † October 25, 1782 Eutin)
  • Heinrich Voß (born October 29, 1779 Otterndorf, † October 20, 1822 Heidelberg) Professor of Philology in Heidelberg
  • Wilhelm Voss (born April 29, 1781 Otterndorf, † October 24, 1840 Eutin) doctor in Eutin
  • Hans Voss (born June 17, 1783 Eutin, † October 4, 1849 Freiburg) architect in Freiburg i. Br.
  • Abraham Voss (* February 12, 1785 Eutin, † November 13, 1847 Düsseldorf) classical philologist and pedagogue in Rudolstadt and Düsseldorf

After the death of her husband, she and her son Abraham published his letters in several volumes, along with information from his life, memorable essays and poems. Her memories of the Heidelberg pedagogue Emilie Heins appeared as a private print in 1831 . More essays and poems were published by her posthumously.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.
  2. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 488.

literature

  • Dagny Stemper: The life of the Schleswig-Holstein writer Ernestine Voss . An analysis of biography and work on the basis of your autograph legacy. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3631550618
  • Frank Baudach, Ute Pott and others: " A man like Voss ..." Exhibition of the Eutin State Library, the Gleimhaus Halberstadt and the Johann Heinrich Voß Society on the 250th birthday of Johann Heinrich Voß, Edition Temmen, 2001, ISBN 3- 86108-537-2 . Second, corrected and revised edition, Eutin: Eutin State Library 2020 (Eutin State Library publications, vol. 4). ISBN 978-3-939643-23-4
  • Ludwig Bäte (Ed.): Vossische Hausidylle . Letters from Ernestine Voss to Heinrich Christian and Sara Boie. 1794-1820. Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1925
  • Axel E. Walter: Ernestine Voss. A poet's wife and writer of the Late Enlightenment. With an edition of selected fonts. Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Gesellschaft (Voss materials, vol. 2), Eutin 2016, ISBN 978-3-940211-01-9

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personal data
SURNAME Voss, Ernestine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boie, Marie Christine Ernestine (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Meldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1834
Place of death Heidelberg