Judith Rave
Judith Rave , née Judith Melousine Henriette Wilhelmine Freiin von Scheither , (* 1763 in Levern ; † August 2, 1807 in Wormlage ) was a German writer .
Life
Judith von Scheither was born in 1763 as the daughter of Major General Georg Heinrich Albrecht von Scheither from Hanover . Her uncle was the Prussian minister Julius August von der Horst , Berlin, to whom she owed part of her education. She learned French and English, the piano, and began writing poetry for children at an early age. A collection of children's poems on the history of Brandenburg was published in 1805. She lived temporarily at court in Berlin.
Through an exchange of letters she met her future husband Siegfried Rave, a pastor at Groß Solschen near Hildesheim . Her father was strictly against the connection, so that only his death on July 25, 1789 made the marriage possible, which took place on August 12, 1789 in Groß Solschen. Judith Rave was the mother of five children.
After rumors that her husband was cheating on her, the unconventional pastor's wife found a lover after a period of personal depression, whom she initially taught and who later, allegedly because of her poor health, accompanied her on a trip to the Rhine , where they both met as barons and baroness and lived together as a couple. In Braunschweig , she was given birth to a daughter of her lover, who was named Laura Agnese Lovy. The couple separated. Because of her scandalous life, friends and relatives broke up with her. Judith Rave went with her daughter to Dessau and Halle , where she lived in poor conditions.
At this time she began to write the work Molly's Confessions under the pseudonym "Molly" , which has autobiographical traits. She also wrote novellas, which, however, were not published during her lifetime. Judith Rave worked in the following years including as a teacher at a girls' school in Goslar and later as a governess in the house of Minister of War Julius Heinrich von Buggenhagen worked. Then she became the educator of the children of the State Deputy von Schoenfeld in Wormlage, where she died in 1807.
Her daughter Laura Agnese Lovy married Johann Ludwig Christian Abel Wübbenhorst, son of the sexton and organist Johann Heinrich Wübbenhorst, on September 8, 1825 in Wildeshausen.
Works
- Molly's confession or something like that leads to disaster. A true warning story to all wild-caught girls. Fleischer, Leipzig 1804.
- Chronological verses on the history of Brandenburg up to Friedrich II., King of Prussia (1805)
- The Regenstein or happy loneliness. A true story. Publishers of the Hof-Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Rudolstadt 1816.
literature
- Carl Wilhelm Otto August Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century , second part MZ. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, pp. 228-231.
- Bernhard von Poten : Scheither, Albrecht . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 729-731.
Web links
- Review of Molly's Confessions in the Neue Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek 1805, pp. 306-310.
Individual evidence
- ^ Judith Rave was baptized on September 8, 1763 in Levern.
- ↑ Damian Julius Siegfried Emmerich (1790), Siegfried Cäsar (* 1792, preacher), Sigfried Agathon Theodor William Ferdinand (1794–1814), Emilie Floribelle Sigfriedine (* 1796, she married the pastor Johann David Brachmann in 1813), Sigfried Agathon (1798 -1815)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rave, Judith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scheither, Judith Melousine Henriette Wilhelmine Freiin von (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized September 8, 1763 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Levern |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 1807 |
| Place of death | Wormlage |