Fanny von Arnstein
Baroness Franziska "Fanny" von Arnstein (born November 29, 1758 in Berlin , † June 8, 1818 near Vienna ) was a Viennese salonnière and society lady.
Life
Fanny Arnstein, b. Vögele Itzig came from a wealthy Jewish family - her father Daniel Itzig (1723–1799) was court factor of Friedrich Wilhelm II - and therefore enjoyed a comprehensive upbringing. Through her marriage to Nathan Adam von Arnstein , grandson of the imperial court factor Isaak Arnstein , in 1776 she came to Vienna and was the first Viennese Jew to manage her own literary salon in the spirit of the Enlightenment . Her Palais Arnstein was on Hohen Markt in the first district of Vienna. Especially during the Congress of Vienna , prominent representatives from diplomacy , science, art and journalism met at the Arnstein house . In addition, Fanny von Arnstein was a co-founder of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was her great-nephew, Fanny Hensel her great-niece and Sara Levy her sister.
Fanny von Arnstein was very committed to politics. With her husband she supported the Tyrolean uprising against Napoléon .
It was also Fanny von Arnstein who erected the first historically attested Christmas tree in Vienna in 1814 - a tradition she had brought with her from Berlin:
- “The day before yesterday, according to Berlin custom, there was a very numerous Christmas tree or Christmas tree festival at the Arnsteins. There were State Chancellor Hardenberg, Councilors of State Jordan and Hoffmann, Prince Radziwill, Herr Bartholdy, all relatives of the house. All asked, invited people received gifts or souvenirs from the Christmas tree. Funny songs were sung according to the Berlin tradition ... Prince Hardenberg had a lot of fun. "
She was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Währing . Their bones, as well as those from several other graves, were excavated by the Nazis and allegedly transferred to the Natural History Museum in Vienna for “scientific purposes” . In 1947, all the skeletons that could be identified in the Natural History Museum Vienna from the Jewish cemetery in Währing were handed over to the Jewish Community of Vienna and reburied in family graves. The reburied include eight members of the von Arnstein family, who are believed to have died between 1785 and 1857. It is believed that the remains of Fanny von Arnstein may also be among them. However, there is no evidence for the exhumation of the remains of Fanny von Arnstein or for their scientific examination at the Natural History Museum Vienna . It is therefore questionable whether they were among those relics that were transferred to the Natural History Museum.
Her daughter, Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein (1780-1859), was also known in Vienna as a pianist and hostess of a salon.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Arnstein, Franziska Freiin von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 69 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Gustav Gugitz : Arnstein, Fanny von, Freifrau. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 394 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hilde Spiel : Fanny von Arnstein or Die Emanzipation , Frankfurt am Main 1962.
- Patricia Steines: a hundred thousand stones. Grave sites of great Austrians of Jewish denomination on the Vienna Central Cemetery Gate I and Gate IV , Falter, Vienna, 1993.
- Maria Teschler-Nicola and Margit Berner : The anthropological department of the Natural History Museum during the Nazi era; Reports and documentation of research and collection activities 1938-1945 . In: Studies on anatomical science in Vienna 1938–1945, Academic Senate d. University of Vienna, pp. 333–358.
- Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1989.
- Robert S. Wistrich : The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Emperor Franz Joseph , Vienna 1999.
- Jana Mikota: Jewish women writers - rediscovered: Fanny von Arnstein and the salon culture of the late 18th and early 19th centuries . In: Medaon 4 (2010), 7 ( online ).
- Homa Jordis: A salonière as a mediator of European power politics - spaces of experience, networks and leitmotifs of Fanny von Arnstein in the period before and during the Congress of Vienna . Dissertation University of Vienna 2017
Web links
- Entry on Arnstein, Franziska (Fanny) Freifrau von in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Lexicon article by the Sophie Drinker Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy (Ed.): Stadtbildverluste Wien - A look back at five decades. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2005, p. 103
- ^ Sabine Krusen: Short biography of Fanny von Arnstein . In: Scheinschlag issue 6/2005.
- ↑ Entry on Fanny von Arnstein in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- ↑ On the 70th anniversary of the 1938 November pogroms on ORF religion on November 12, 2008, accessed on March 23, 2009
- ↑ Hilde Spiel, Fanny von Arnstein, Frankfurt a. M. 1962, p. 434
- ↑ Patricia Steines, One Hundred Thousand Stones. Grave sites of great Austrians of Jewish denomination on the Vienna Central Cemetery Gate I and Gate IV , Falter, Vienna, 1993, p. 318
- ^ Maria Teschler-Nicola and Margit Berner, The anthropological department of the Natural History Museum in the Nazi era; Reports and documentation of research and collection activities 1938-1945. In: Studies on anatomical science in Vienna 1938-1945, Academic Senate d. University of Vienna, pp. 333–358.
- ↑ Patricia Steines, One Hundred Thousand Stones. Grave sites of great Austrians of Jewish denomination on the Vienna Central Cemetery Gate I and Gate IV, Falter, Vienna, 1993, p. 318
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnstein, Fanny von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Viennese salonnière |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1818 |
| Place of death | Vienna |