Karoline Stahl
Karoline Stahl (born Dumpf; born November 4, 1776 at Gut Ohlenhof, Livonia ; † April 1, 1837 in Dorpat , Estonia ) was a German writer , pedagogue and storyteller .
Life
Karoline Stahl was born in Livonia as the daughter of the District Court Secretary Dumpf. In Russia and Dorpat she worked as an educator and worked from 1808 to 1820 as an educator in Weimar and Nuremberg, among others . In 1816 she published her first work Fables, Fairy Tales and Stories for Children , which are mainly of a moral and educational nature. Also included is the fairy tale of Tom Thumb and with “The ungrateful dwarf” a work which Wilhelm Grimm later reworked and which today is one of the most famous German fairy tales as “ Snow White and Rose Red ”.
After finishing her work in Germany, Karoline Stahl went to Dorpat and in the following years worked as an educator in Belarus , among others . She returned to Germany in 1828 and worked here as an educator until 1832.
Karoline Stahl was a very productive and well-read youth writer who also published short stories. Smaller stories and poems appeared between 1818 and 1820 in the Abendzeitung , in the Morgenblatt and in Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz 's magazine Der Gesellschafter .
Works
- Fables, fairy tales and stories for children. 1818, 2nd edition 1821
- Little novels. 2 parts, Verlag Reclam, Leipzig, 1819
- Romantic seals. Nuremberg, 1819 ( 2nd edition Nuremberg 1834 online - Internet Archive )
- Stories. Vienna, 1820
- The Müller family: a book for young people; with copper. Campe publishing house, Nuremberg, 1821
- Moral tales, plays and travelogues for the youth. Riga, 1822
- Joke and Seriousness, a reading book for the young. Riga, 1823
- Alwinen's evening hours. Riga, 1823
- Fairy tales. Riga, 1824
- Woldemar. 1830
- Rosalinde, or the ways of fate. 1833
literature
- Steel, Caroline . In: Ladies Conversations Lexicon . Volume 9. [o. O.] 1837, p. 389.
- 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. 296.
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1231 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steel, Caroline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dumpf, Karoline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Ohlenhof , Livonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1837 |
| Place of death | Dorpat , Estonia |