Henriette Ulrike Ottilie von Pogwisch

Henriette Ulrike Ottilie von Pogwisch (born October 15, 1776 in Potsdam , † June 15, 1851 in Weimar ) was the founder of a French reading society and a German reading society . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was also a guest in her literary circles . These literary circles existed for about two decades.

Her father was Lieutenant General and Governor of Königsberg Viktor Amadeus Henckel von Donnersmarck (1727–1793). Her mother was the Chief Chamberlain Eleonore Maximiliane Ottilie Henckel von Donnersmarck . She was married to the Prussian officer Julius von Pogwisch (* July 30, 1760 - December 7, 1836) since February 5, 1796, from whom she separated in 1802. The daughters Ottilie (1796–1872) and Ulrike von Pogwisch (1798–1875) came from this marriage .

literature

• Henriette Ulrike Ottilie von Pogwisch . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 29th year, 1851, 1st part. Weimar 1853. pp. 471 f.
• Karsten Hein: Ottilie von Goethe (1796–1872). Biography and literary relationships of Goethe's daughter-in-law (= European university publications. Series 1: German Language and Literature , Volume 1782). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-631-37438-0 (dissertation University of Düsseldorf 2000, 398 pages).
• Karsten Hein: Ottilie von Goethe. Insights into the house on Frauenplan . In: Andreas Remmel, Paul Remmel (Ed.): Goethe-Blätter. Series of publications by the Goethe Society Siegburg e. V. Volume IV. Bernstein, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809762-4-4 .
• Sylke Kaufmann: Henriette von Pogwisch and her French Reading Society: a contribution to Weimar culture in the first half of the 19th century; with an excursus on Goethe's work in the reading society. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag 1994, zugl .: Jena, Univ., Master's thesis 1993 ISBN 3-929019-67-1