Johanna Isabella Eleonore von Wallenrodt

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Johanna Isabella Eleonore von Wallenrodt, youth portrait
Johanna Isabella Eleonore von Wallenrodt as a widow, around 1791

Johanna Isabella Eleonore von Wallenrodt , b. Freiin von Koppy (born February 28, 1740 in Uhlstädt , † October 11, 1819 in Lampersdorf ) was a German writer .

Life

Isabella von Wallenrodt grew up as one of nine children in Thuringia. At a young age, she lost her father, Freiherr von Koppy, who left the family only a heavily indebted estate, which the mother was able to buy through her fortune. Isabella von Wallenrodt learned to read at a young age, and a court master and governess took care of her upbringing. Her upbringing also included writing, arithmetic, French, religion, music, drawing and geography, an unusually broad education for a girl of her time. Her mother introduced her to pietism and saw plays in her uncle's house. Books were bought for her , and she came to appreciate Gellert's works in particular . The first attempts at writing were made in early youth.

During the Seven Years' War 1756–1763 and the ensuing billeting in her mother's house, Isabella von Wallenrodt, who was barely 18 years old, threw herself into numerous affairs. In 1760 she met the royal Prussian Rittmeister Gottfried Ernst von Wallenrodt, son of Johann Christoph Julius Ernst von Wallenrodt (1670–1727), Prussian envoy in London and Eleonora-Luise von Wallenrodt (born von der Groeben , 1700–1740) know, whom she married against her mother's will in 1762. In the winter of 1763, the couple moved to a village near Breslau, where they finally settled a few years later. The costly life of the husband and numerous pregnancies soon put the couple in financial difficulties. When the husband died as a major in 1776 after a long illness, he left behind Isabella von Wallenrodt, who was now a mother of five, only a small fortune.

The following years were marked by poverty. The regimental pension to which she was entitled after her husband's death was not paid by Frederick the Great and her mother had also lost her fortune in the meantime. Isabella von Wallenrodt accumulated ever higher debts in the period that followed, a small pension that was granted to her by Friedrich Wilhelm II did not help her in the long term, which ultimately led to her flight from the creditors from Breslau to Berlin. Her financial situation did not improve in the period that followed, so Isabella von Wallenrodt used downright criminal methods to get money. For example, she pretended to be able to spin flax silk and sent the king a silk ribbon as proof of her art, which was bought. Wallenrodt used the advance of 4,000 Thalers that the King then granted her to pay her creditors in Breslau, but the fraud soon came to light and forced them to stop their attempts. The financial hardship eventually led her to make a living as a writer.

In 1802, from Wallenrodt in Breslau , St. Nikolai converted to the Catholic Church. She left a manuscript explaining her motives and assuring her that she was "in no way induced or influenced by any Catholic clergyman"; she only decided to do it through “her own thinking”.

Isabella von Wallenrodt spent the last years of her life caring for her daughter Antoinette Korckwitz in Lampersdorf (today Grodziszcze ) near Bernstadt in Silesia , where she died in 1819.

family

The following children were born from the marriage of Friedrich Gottfried Ernst von Wallenrodt (* May 18, 1725 - February 4, 1776) and Eleonore Isabella von Koppy :

  • Friedrich Julius Ernst (* November 28, 1762; † January 24, 1809) ⚭ Karoline von Graeve (* June 20, 1766; † September 26, 1849)
  • Karl Wilhelm Leopold
  • Augusta (February 20, 1764 - February 18, 1837) author
⚭ 1791 N: N. Fölsch (divorce)
⚭ 1803 NN by Goltstein
  • Antoinette Albertine Johanna († April 26, 1839) ⚭ Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann von Korckwitz († July 24, 1815)
  • Charlotte Friederike Franziska (* October 22, 1776; † May 6, 1847) ⚭ Karl Moritz Gottlob von Kessel († August 11, 1822)

Her granddaughter Selma von Korckwitz's husband was the Prussian Major General Bernhard Karl Heinrich von Prittwitz (1796–1881).

Works

  • The three distaffs or Bertha von Salza and Herrmann von Thuringia. From the 12th century. Voss and Leo, Leipzig 1793. ( digitized version )
  • "How that works!" or the incidents of two good families in the period from 1780–1784, in dialogues, letters and connecting stories. Schwickert, Leipzig 1793. ( Digitized Volume 1 ), ( Digitized Volume 2 ) New edition: Olms, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-487-13006-8 .
  • Emma von Ruppin, a story full of sorrows, joys and wonders, from the 14th century. Jacobäer, Leipzig 1794. 2 volumes. ( Digitized volume 2 )
  • Theophrastus Gradmann, one of the rare earth sons. A novel for thinkers and nobles. Böhme, Leipzig 1794.
  • Fantasies of my sleepless nights, written for sentient hearts and sufferers. Groß, Halberstadt 1794. ( digitized version )
  • Heinrich Robers incidents. From the years 1740 to 80. Müller, Leipzig / Riga 1794. ( digitized )
  • Activities of my celebration hours, for readers of all genres. Gehr, Breslau 1795. ( digitized part 2 )
  • Egonen and Schnaken, observed on a journey. Supprian, Leipzig 1796. ( digitized version )
  • Ghost apparitions and prophecies, especially strange for our times. Supprian, Leipzig 1796. ( digitized version )
  • Adolph and Sidonie von Wappenkron. Hendel, Halle 1796. ( [5 ,% 22view% 22:% 22info% 22} digitized volume 1]), ( [7 ,% 22view% 22:% 22info% 22} volume 2, 1897])
  • Prince Hassan, the generous, punished with vengeance and rewarded with love. An oriental charter. Kleefeld, Leipzig 1796. ( digitized version )
  • Goldfritzel, or Fritz Nickel Schnitzer's mother's son, life, deeds and opinions, told by himself. In two parts. Rothe, Gera 1797. ( digitized part 1 ), ( digitized part 2 )
  • The life of Frau von Wallenrodt in letters to a friend. A contribution to the science of the soul and world knowledge. (1797)
  • Events of the knight Wolfram von Veldigk. A contribution to the history of the monk intrigues of former times Hartmann, Berlin 1798. ( digitized version )
  • Sensations of the Spirit in Poems by Fr. W. (1798)
  • The little knight. Ghost story from the grayest ages of antiquity. Vollmer, Mainz 1799. ( digitized volume 1 ), ( digitized volume 2 )
  • Diogenes des Zweyten illuminations of mankind with the lantern at days, or wonderful journey into the chambers of folly (1800)
  • Fritz, the man he shouldn't be, or the consequences of a bad upbringing. An entertaining novel told by himself. Haller, Gera 1800. ( digitized part 1 ), ( part 2 )
  • Karl Moor and his comrades after the farewell scene at the old tower. A painting of sublime human nature as a side piece to Rinaldo Rinaldini. Vollmer, Mainz / Hamburg 1801. ( digitized version )
  • Stories and notes collected while traveling. Leipzig 1807. ( digitized volume 2 )

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century. Second part M – Z. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, pp. 398–402.
  • Max Mendheim :  Wallenrodt, Johanne Isabelle Eleonore von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 733-735.
  • Elke Ramm: Letter from “Brodnoth”. Johanna Isabella Eleonore von Wallenrodt (1740-1819). In: Karin Tebben: Profession: Writer. Writing women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1998, pp. 78-103
  • Ortrun Niethammer: Autobiographies of Women in the 18th Century . Francke, Tübingen 2000, pp. 222-235

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ^ David August Rosenthal : Convert pictures from the nineteenth century . Volume 1, part 1. Hurter Verlag, Schaffhausen 1871, pp. 54-55.
  2. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 15, Part 1, p. 259, digitized
  3. ↑ Excerpt “He should be your master” approx. 1762, in Andrea van Dülmen, Ed .: Frauenleben im 18. Century. Anthology. Book guild Gutenberg , Frankfurt 1992 ISBN 3-7632-4124-8 p. 37f
  4. ↑ Despite the abbreviation used in the name “Fr. v. W. “, the author is not to be confused with the anonymous younger author Mrs. von W.
  5. ↑ No copy can be found
personal data
SURNAME Wallenrodt, Johanna Isabella Eleonore von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koppy, Johanna Isabella Eleonore Freiin von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Uhlstädt
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1819
Place of death Lampersdorf