Julie Marie Christine from Oldofredi-Hager

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Julie Countess Oldofredi-Hager
( Oesterr. Illustrirte Zeitung , 1852)

Julie Marie Christine Countess von Oldofredi-Hager , b. Julia Hager von und zu Altensteig (born February 8, 1813 in Debreczin , † March 4, 1879 in Vienna ) was an Austrian poet.

Life

Julie Oldofredi-Hager was born as the only daughter of the Austro-Hungarian General Johann Reichsfreiherr Hager von und zu Altensteig (1761–1822) and Maria Magdalena von Illéssy (1793–1858) in Debreczin, Hungary, as their father was stationed there at that time. Shortly afterwards he was transferred to Temesvar , where he died when Julie was nine years old.

In 1831, at the age of 17, she married the Count and First Lieutenant Hieronymus Oldofredi in Vienna. Her husband fell bedridden for more than two years, and while she cared for him, she spent the remainder studying history and literature.

After his recovery, Hieronymus Oldofredi was transferred to the Banat and later to Transylvania , where she followed him. Occasionally she traveled to see her mother, who lived in Pest . It was there in 1839 that her first volume of poetry, Flowers of Feeling , came out.

In 1842 the family moved to Galicia . The following year, Gustav Heckenast published Julie Oldofredi-Hager's second collection of poems. The work was called Neue Gedichte and contained a foreword by the writer Caroline Pichler .

From 1847 the family lived in Lemberg , the then capital of Galicia, for four years . During this time Julie published two new volumes of poetry, one of them for charity. During the further military career of her husband, who first became a major and later a general, the family moved to Tarnopol , Transylvania, Banat, Graz , Horn , Vienna and Pest.

In 1852 Julie Oldofredi-Hager was awarded the Star Cross. One year later, her last volume of poetry, Moos , was published, the proceeds of which she donated to the construction of the Vienna Votive Church .

After the death of her husband, Julie Oldofredi-Hager spent the last years of her life alone in Vienna, where she died in 1879. The couple had a son who, like his father and grandfather, embarked on a military career.

Works

  • Flowers of feeling. Kilian et al. Co, Pest 1839.
  • New poems. Hedge branch, Pest 1843.
  • Thorns. Trewendt, Breslau 1848.
  • Yellow leaves. Gerold and Son, Vienna 1851.
  • Moss. KK Hof- u. State printing office, Vienna 1853.

review

The first volume of poetry by the author Blüthen des Feelings. met with a divided echo. In the repertory of the entire German literature, year 1840, there is talk of a "meaningless, trivial manner" and "unperceived phraseology", with which the author "very ordinary and subjective areas of life, now more, now less happy in verse set »have. There is also criticism of the "servilism" with which she sings about two nobles in her poems.

Karoline Pichler, on the other hand, expresses herself positively in her foreword to the second volume of poetry: «The" flowers of feelings "deserve this name with full right; like the blossoms on flowers and plants, they were unfolding of the purest and most delicate forces in a lovely shape of form and color. The audience appreciated them [..] ».

In its 1852 edition, the magazine Der Phönix describes Julie Oldofredi-Hager as a "natural poet" who, although she received no instruction, "regulates the measure of hearing" and has reached an "important level in art and intellectual education". Each of the four volumes she had published up to then "was received by the critics in the most approving and flattering manner, as was evident in all literary-critical journals of the time."

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Gersdorf (Ed.): Repertory of the entire German literature, year 1840 Leipzig 1840, FA Brockhaus, Volume 24, p. 462 ( full text in the Google book search)
  2. ↑ a b The Phoenix. Journal for literature, art, history, patriotism, science and theater , third year, Innsbruck 1852, Verlag der Wagnerschen Buchhandlung, p. 51 ( full text in the Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Oldofredi-Hager, Julie Marie Christine from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hager von und zu Altensteig, Julia (maiden name); Oldofredi-Hager, Julie Marie Christine Countess von; Oldofredi-Hager, Julie; Oldofredi-Haager, Julie Countess of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Debreczin
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1879
Place of death Vienna