Henriette Frölich

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Henriette Frölich (born July 28, 1768 in Zehdenick an der Havel; † April 5, 1833 in Berlin ; born Dorothea Friederica Henrietta Rauthe ; pseudonym: Jerta ) was a German writer.

Life

Henriette Frölich was the daughter of the royal court commissioner Christian Rauthe. She had numerous siblings and received insufficient education from a French governess, which is why she later trained herself. She probably grew up in Berlin between the ages of ten and sixteen, where her father was responsible for lighting the Berlin Palace .

In May 1789 she married the writer and reformer Carl Wilhelm Frölich , who was employed by the General Post Office in Berlin. Her house became the meeting point for the Berlin enlightenment group and she herself published an almanac of the muses . In 1792 her husband resigned from the civil service and tried to build a new life on the Scharfenbrück leasehold near Luckenwalde . Most of their ten children came from the following period.

In 1806 the estate was sacked by French troops; since then the family has been in financial distress. Large parts of Henriette Frölich's literary works were also lost during the looting, including The Rose Girl , which she then wrote a second time. In 1813 the property was completely devastated during the wars of liberation and Henriette Frölich moved back to Berlin with her family, where her husband founded a reading hall and lending library, which went bankrupt again in the 1820s. Frölich then found a home in Berlin with her eldest son.

The author became known for her epistolary novel Virginia or the Colony of Kentucky , published in 1819 (pre-dated to 1820) , which she published under the pseudonym "Jerta". In it she drafted a socially utopian ideal, which was modeled on the French Republic and even grants women a right to vote (with ½ vote per woman). During her lifetime, however, the work hardly met with any response.

Works

literature

  • Gisela Brinker-Gabler : Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. Munich: dtv, 1986. (p. 98 f.)

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personal data
SURNAME Happy, Henriette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jerta (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Zehdenick
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1833
Place of death Berlin