Henriette von Schorn

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Henriette von Schorn b. Henriette Wilhelmine Auguste Freiin von Stein (* 1807 in Nordheim (Grabfeld) , † 1869 in Weimar ) was a German poet , fairy tale collector and salonnière . She also wrote under the pseudonym H. Nordheim .

Life

Henriette von Schorn was the daughter of the landowner Friedrich Georg von Stein and his wife Caroline Oktavie Louise.

Henriette and Ludwig von Schorn

She moved to Weimar in 1831 and was court maid of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna . In Weimar she met the art historian Ludwig von Schorn . They got engaged despite the misgivings of the Stein'schen and the grand ducal family: It was an unheard of event that a maid of honor, a daughter of the noble family, should marry a commoner. The reigning Grand Duke Karl Friedrich bestowed the title of nobility on her husband and they both married in 1839. At the beginning of 1841, their daughter Adelheid von Schorn was born. Less than a year later, Ludwig von Schorn died of a breast disease.

Henriette von Schorn maintained contacts with many people from the Weimar educated middle class. These included: Hans Feodor von Milde , Rosa von Milde , Peter Cornelius , Hoffman von Fallersleben , Louise Seidler , Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Franz Liszt . She wrote poems for Die Gartenlaube , the Leipziger Allgemeine Modezeitung , the Weimar Sunday newspaper and the Munich house chronicle . For Ludwig Bechstein's fairy tale collections , some of her fairy tale poems were published under the pseudonym H. Nordheim .

Henriette von Schorn suffered a stroke in May 1869 . She died a few days later and was buried in the historical cemetery in Weimar .

Works (selection)

  • Songs and sayings . Weimar 1854 (under the pseudonym H. Nordheim)
  • Rural sketches from Franconia Weimar 1854 (under the pseudonym H. Nordheim)
  • Stories from Franconia 1902 (posthumous)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adelheid von Schorn: Two generations. Memories and letters . Berlin S. Fischer Verlag 1901, page 11.
  2. ↑ Ulrike Müller: The clever women of Weimar. Mistresses, salon ladies, writers and artists. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag GmbH, Munich (1st edition 2007), page 83.

literature

  • Adelheid von Schorn: Two generations. Memories and letters . Berlin S. Fischer Verlag 1901.
  • Ulrike Müller: The smart women of Weimar. Mistresses, salon ladies, writers and artists. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag GmbH, Munich (1st edition 2007).

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personal data
SURNAME Schorn, Henriette von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Henriette Wilhelmine Auguste Freiin von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, fairy tale collector and salon lady
DATE OF BIRTH 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordheim
DATE OF DEATH 1869
Place of death Weimar