Johanna von Bültzingslöwen

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Johanna von Bültzingslöwen (born February 11, 1770 in Dewitz as née Johanna Sophia Beata Friederica Elisabeth von Gentzkow ; † after 1823) was a German writer .

Life

Johanna von Bültzingslöwen was born in 1770 in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as the daughter of the Oberkammerjunker and writer Johann Adolf Friedrich von Gentzkow . She received a good education. The father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother then rented out the family's estate in Dewitz and moved with Johanna and her siblings to near Potsdam .

In 1796 she married the royal Prussian captain of the life guard Friedrich Heinrich von Bültzingslöwen . The common child died after a few months, the marriage was divorced after a short time. After a long-term illness, Johanna von Bültzingslöwen found herself writing and published her first essays in various magazines. According to the contemporary biographical description of Schindel from 1823, no further information is available about Johanna von Bültzingslöwen, who moved to Berlin around 1820 .

Works

  • Letters about female education, exchanged between aunt and niece. New Berlinische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819. ( digitized version )
  • Revenge. A tragedy in 5 acts. Bureau for Literature and Art, Berlin 1820.
  • The struggle with fate. (Novel 1820)
  • Views and opinions on promoting happy marriages. Drafted in two treatises. New Berlinische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1820.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1591 .
  • Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German women writers of the 19th century, first part AL . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1823, pp. 80–84.
  • Carl Schröder: Mecklenburg and the Mecklenburgers in beautiful literature . Süsserott, Berlin 1909, p. 147f.
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories on the History of German Literature 9), p. 44.
  • Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel; The learned Germany. Volume 22, p.427f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are also statements in the literature that her husband died soon after the marriage.
  2. ↑ No copy can be found

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personal data
SURNAME Bültzingslöwen, Johanna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gentzkow, Johanna Sophia Beata Friederica Elisabeth von (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Dewitz
DATE OF DEATH after 1820