Henriette von Montenglaut
Artemisie Henriette Marianne von Montenglaut (born February 25, 1768 in Böhme near Hanover , † December 5, 1838 ) was a German writer, actress and translator.
origin
Her parents were Major Olivier Heinrich von Cronstein in the Queen's Dragoon Regiment and his wife, a wealthy Dutch heiress. Her father was a poet himself and a friend of the poet Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim .
Life
She was educated at a French boarding school in the Netherlands, where she learned about classical literature and poetry. Then she came to the court of Margravine Friederike Charlotte , abbess at Herford Abbey . Henriette married the police director of Herford, Ferdinand Friedrich Florens Consbruch (* June 4, 1762, † May 15, 1836) in 1788 . The couple had one daughter, but they divorced in 1792. She then married a Mr. Müller, tried briefly as an actress and soon became a widow. She then married a Frenchman, the former colonel, and emigrated Baron Pidoux de Montenglaut († 1810). After losing his fortune in Hamburg's bankruptcy in 1810, he died of depression. A son died a little later. Henriette von Montenglaut began again to write poems that were distributed without her knowledge by friends such as Fräulein von Ittner and Johann Christian Giesecke . From 1812 it was published anonymously in the Morgenblatt. In 1814 she was able to publish her collected poems in the volume Herbstblumen . Until 1820 she did not publish any more, instead she translated the novel Merope and wrote for several magazines. In 1822 she published the translation of the French novel The Children of Europe under the name PV Husch . She was also the companion of the singer Henriette Sontag . Her best-known translations include novels by the English author Walter Scott .
Works
In addition to the books, von Montenglaut published numerous articles in various journals.
- 1799, The daring vow , 2 volumes, from the French as Frau von Genlis
- 1822, The Pirate , 3 volumes, from the English, original by Scott
- 1822, Five and twenty Scottish and English songs with music by Beethoven
- 1824, Nordland's heather blossoms
- 1830, short stories, stories and travel sketches , 2 volumes.
literature
- New Nekrolog der Deutschen 1838, Volume 16, Volume 2, p.1072ff
- Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel, The German women writers of the nineteenth century: MZ , p.14ff
- Artemisia Henriette Marianne von Montenglaut's life outline , autobiography
Web links
- Literature by and about Henriette von Montenglaut in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography
- Digital copy of the wreath of autumn flowers
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicolas Rügge, In the service of city and state , p 332
- ^ The learned Teutschland, additions to volume 5, p.612
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Montenglaut, Henriette von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cronstein, Henriette von (maiden name); Montenglaut, Artemisie Henriette Marianne von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, actress and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Böhme |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1838 |