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Eva Lessing

Eva König (born March 22, 1736 in Heidelberg ; † January 10, 1778 in Wolfenbüttel ), born Eva Catharina Hahn , from 1776 Eva Lessing , was the wife of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .

From 1756 she was married to the Hamburg merchant Engelbert König. In 1767 she became friends with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who also became the godfather of her son Fritz. After Engelbert König's death in 1768, Lessing took care of the widow.

The friendship culminated in an engagement in 1771 . Because of her husband's estate, Eva König had to go to Vienna several times for long periods of time . Lessing traveled to Italy with Prince Leopold in 1775 . The contact between the two during the engagement period consisted mainly of the familiar exchange of letters . They were only able to get married in Jork (near Hamburg) in 1776 . Eva Lessing moved with her husband to Wolfenbüttel, where she died of childbed fever in 1778 after the birth of her son Traugott .

literature

  • Günter and Ursula Schulz (eds.): My dearest Madam. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's correspondence with Eva König. 1770-1776 . Beck, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-406-05736-5 .
  • Paul Raabe : Eva König. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8319-0191-0 (biography).
  • Petra Oelker : "I kiss you a thousand times" - The life of Eva Lessing. Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-546-00378-0 .
  • Wolfgang Albrecht (Ed.): Letters from the brewing period 1770–1776. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing / Eva König, Weimar 2000, Böhlaus successor, ISBN 3-7400-1111-4 .
  • Elke Bauer and Helmut Berthold (eds.): Thue a cup of wine ... The cookbook of Eva König. Recipes from Lessing's wife . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1241-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME King, Eve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1778
Place of death Wolfenbüttel