Henriette von Knebel

Henriette von Knebel (born June 29, 1755 in Regensburg , † June 14, 1813 in Ludwigslust ) was the educator and later companion of the Saxon Princess Karoline Luise von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach .

Life

Henriette was born in 1755 to Johann Georg Friedrich Knebel and his wife Elisabeth Magdalene. Her older brothers were Wilhelm, Christian Friedrich and Karl Ludwig von Knebel. Her father was raised to the nobility in 1756.

In 1791 Henriette von Knebel left her parents' house in Ansbach and went to Weimar , where her brother Karl Ludwig had enforced her appointment as a teacher at the royal court. In the years that followed, she had a lively correspondence with him, describing her life at court. For example, she attended the princess's dance lessons, Herder's confirmation lessons , Kotzebue 's tea lessons , Zelter's visit to Goethe, or the wedding of Hereditary Prince Karl Friedrich to Maria Pavlovna .

In 1810 she left Weimar in the wake of Karoline Luise when she married Friedrich Ludwig zu Mecklenburg . Until the end of her life in the summer of 1813, she remained Caroline's society lady.

swell

• Düntzer, Heinrich (Ed.): From Karl Ludwig von Knebel's correspondence with his sister Henriette (1774–1813). A contribution to the history of German courts and literature, Jena 1858, digitized

literature

• Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 271.