Friederike Magdalene Jerusalem

Friederike Magdalene Jerusalem (born on April 4, 1750, 1756 or 1759 in Braunschweig ; died on April 15, 1836 in Stift Wülfinghausen ) was a German poet.

Life

She was the daughter of the important Enlightenment theologian Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem and Martha Christina, née. Pfeiffer. Her brother was Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem , who, through his unfortunate death, became the model of Goethe's Werther . In her parents' house, where she lived until her father's death in 1789, she met a number of important contemporaries, including Johann Caspar Lavater , and became acquainted with Johann Georg Zimmermann and Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg .

In those years she published under acronyms such as Y., Ms. J., Msl. FJ or Jsm. a series of poems that also appeared in the Göttingen Musenalmanaks in 1783 and 1787. Your poetry is close to the Göttinger Hain and especially to Ludwig Hölty . Objects are next to people ( An Höltys Schatten , 1785), nature, seasons and times of day.

After her father's death, she lived as a canon at Wülfinghausen Abbey until her death . She was occasionally named as the editor of her father's writings, but these were edited by her sister Philippine Charlotte Jerusalem.

Works

Friedrich von Matthison : Lyric Anthology. Nd. 14. Zurich 1806, pp. 147-160 ( digitized version ).
Max Mendheim (ed.): Poets and epic poets of the classical period (= Deutsche National-Litteratur. Vol. 135). Union, Stuttgart, part 1, p. 296 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).

literature

Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel : The German women writers of the nineteenth century. Vol. 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1823, pp. 236-238.
Theophilus Arendt: Friederike Magdalene Jerusalem , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Vol. 14: 1836. Volume 1. Weimar 1838, p. 311 f. ( Digitized version ).
Andrea Ehlert: Jerusalem, Friederike Magdalene. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 1990, vol. 3, p. 143 f.

Web links

Friederike Jerusalem , poems and biography in deutsche-liebeslyrik.de
Friederike Magdalene Jerusalem , entry in the Kalliope network
Friederike Magdalene Jerusalem in the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ There is uncertainty about the year of birth. The years given vary between 1750 (Killy, DBE ), 1756 ( German biography ) and 1759 ( GND , Schindel).

personal data
SURNAME	Jerusalem, Friederike Magdalene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1750 or April 4, 1756 or April 4, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 1836
Place of death	Wülfinghausen Abbey

[1] There is uncertainty about the year of birth. The years given vary between 1750 (Killy, DBE ), 1756 ( German biography ) and 1759 ( GND , Schindel).