Josefine von Knorr
Josefine von Knorr (born April 16, 1827 in Vienna ; † May 30, 1908 in Gresten ) was an Austrian poet and translator.
Life
Josefine, Freiin von Knorr , was the eldest daughter of the Imperial and Royal Council of State and owner of the Stiebar estate in Lower Austria, Josef Freiherr von Knorr (1782–1839), from her marriage to Emilie, Freiin von Metzburg , daughter of the statistician Johann Nepomuk von Metzburg . She received an unusually thorough education and upbringing. She spoke Italian, English and French and read Virgil in the original. Her father died in 1839, her mother in 1856, after she had also lost her second husband, Count Ferdinand von Colloredo-Mannsfeld , in 1848 .
She then lived in different places until she finally found a second home in Paris in 1876 . At times she spent the summer months at her Stiebar Castle near Gresten in Lower Austria, where she received numerous domestic and foreign visitors. In 1878 she became an honorary canon of the kk women's foundation Maria Schul in Brno in Moravia . At the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 she was awarded the golden pen as a prize, in 1894 she was awarded the "Palmes d'Officier d'Academie" by the French Ministry of Education. From its founding in 1891 until its dissolution in 1904, it belonged to the Viennese conservative writers' association » Iduna «.
As a poet Josefine von Knorr, who was friends with Franz Grillparzer , Ferdinand von Saar , Betty Paoli , Dora d'Istria (Princess Helene Ghica) and especially Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach , was under the influence of Lord Byron , whose »tales« she told her old age inspired by the epic poem "Irene" written for 20 years. During her life, Josefine von Knorr edited three collections of poetry: "Summer Flowers and Autumn Leaves" in 1885, "New Poems" in 1887 and "From Late Days" in 1897. She also translated works in English, French, Italian and Albanian into German.
Josefine von Knorr died unmarried and childless at her Stiebar Castle in Gresten. Her extensive correspondence with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was published in 2016.
Works (selection)
- Irene, a poem. Vienna: Auer, 1858
- New poems. Vienna: L. Rosner, 1872
- Summer flowers and autumn leaves. Poems. Vienna: L. Rosner, 1885
- From late days. Poems. Stuttgart: Cotta, 1897
- Poems. Stuttgart / Berlin: Cotta, 1902
- Evening thoughts. Vienna: Daberkow, [1907] (General National Library, 396)
literature
- Hanus: Knorr, Josefine Freiin von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 2.
- Sophie Pataky (ed.): Lexicon of German women of the pen. A compilation of the works by female authors that have appeared since 1840, along with the biographies of the living and a list of pseudonyms. Berlin: C. Pataky, 1898, p. 439
- Irene Fussi, Ulrike Tanzer: Josephine von Knorr as a literary mediator. In: Peter Frank, G. Hall Murray: Buchforschung (contributions to the book industry in Austria, Volume 7.) Harrasowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2012, pp. 298–307
- Ulrike Tanzer: Rediscovered, The Poet Josephine von Knorr. In: Messages from the Brenner Archive No. 30/2011. University of Innsbruck, 2011. Pages 25–37
- Eleonora Jeřábková: Josephine von Knorr, an Austrian poet who is almost unknown today. In: Brno's contributions to German and Nordic studies. 2014, Vol. 28, Issue 1–2, pp. [195] –207
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Josephine von Knorr. Correspondence 1851–1908. Edited by Ulrike Tanzer, Irene Fußl, Lina Maria Zangerl and Gabriele Radecke . Critical and annotated edition. 2 volumes (text and commentary). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knorr, Josefine von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1908 |
| Place of death | Gresten |