Lisette Kornacher

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Lisette Kornacher at the age of around 40
Tomb of Christian Johann Klett and Elisabeth born. Kornacher at the old cemetery in Heilbronn

Elisabetha ("Lisette") Gottliebin Kornacher (born November 4, 1773 in Heilbronn ; † May 13, 1858 ibid) was for a long time the model for the figure of Käthchen von Heilbronn from Heinrich von Kleist 's play of the same name.

Life

Lisette Kornacher was the third of five daughters of Heilbronn mayor Georg Christoph Kornacher and Katharina Uhl and granddaughter of the then Heilbronn restaurateur Johann Georg Uhl (1718–1790), who was born to a "Madame Tschiffeli", namely the Swiss agronomist widow Margarethe Tschiffeli . Steck, had been successfully treated with animal magnetism and entrusted his granddaughter, suffering from inflammation of the arm and leg joints, to the Heilbronn doctor Eberhard Gmelin in 1787 , who also propagated "animal magnetism", like Christian Friedrich Reuss earlier, Gmelin's son-in-law who died in 1772 Tübingen professor of medicine Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger . Gmelin appears to be involved in the treatment of her complaints, which Dr. Hermann Imhof as "puberty neurosis with spastic bronchial complaints and a hypochondriac fear of having to die in adolescence" were judged to have been successful. In a pamphlet called Materials for Anthropology from 1793, Gmelin published the medical history.

marriage

Lisette Kornacher married a nephew of Gmelins on May 1, 1796, the then Graflich-Erbachischen personal physician and later Heilbronn senior medical officer Christian Johann Klett (1770-1823). The marriage had nine children, including August Klett (1799–1869) and Heilbronn city doctor Georg Klett (1797–1855), as well as the daughter Wilhelmine, who married a cousin with doctor Philipp Safe . Lisette Kornacher died in 1858 and is buried in the old cemetery in Heilbronn next to her sisters Margaretha and Wilhelmine (wife of Georg Friedrich Scharffenstein ).

Relationship with the Oetinger and Dertinger families

The daughter of a merchant, Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel (1774–1806), who was related by marriage to the Oetinger family , was almost the same age as Lisette Kornacher, who was also discussed as a possible Kathchen archetype, was friends with her and even lived once for a remedial sleep treatment by Dr. Eberhard Gmelin at. This meeting took place on September 21, 1789. Remarkably, members of the Dertinger family, related to the prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and his already mentioned brother, Eberhard Gmelins medicine professor Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger, stood as witnesses at the bedside of Lisette Kornacher: a niece of the Oetinger brothers , Rosina Dorothea Knör, widowed Schmidlin, b. Dertinger (1733–1809), and a great-nephew of the Oetinger brothers: Christoph Friedrich Dertinger (1756–1799).

Dertinger married Friederike Charlotte , b. Aff. Eberhard Gmelin reported on the strange antipathy that Charlotte Aff triggered on September 3, 1789 in the forty-fourth session of magnetization therapy when she approached her sick cousin and friend Lisette Kornacher.

Alleged Käthchen template

In the summer of 1811, Kleist wrote in a letter to Marie von Kleist about his Käthchen drama: “It was an excellent invention from the start.” “Invention” is not to be understood as a fiction without an alternative , as the term is primarily used for The Berlin preacher, catechist and Graecist Samuel Heinrich Catel (1758-1838) poet trained in ancient language can also be an equivalent for the term heuresis in the rhetoric of Aristotle or Inventio in Cicero's rhetoric , where it means finding the material and the argumentation. Despite the open problem, numerous researchers saw enough freedom to search for a "great Katy".

Karl Eduard von Bülow believed he saw this in his Kleist biography of 1848 in Julie Kunze from Dresden.

The Heilbronn rector and chronicler Friedrich Dürr came across Lisette Kornacher in 1897, whose medical history Kleist could have heard in 1807 while studying in Dresden. The elder bush scene of the Kleist piece gave rise to comparisons with a "remedial magnetic survey" carried out under hypnosis . Although this attribution was refuted in 1938 by Otto Kienzle, who justified this with the short time between the lecture of the Kornacher medical history in Dresden and the fact that the play was printed a little later, Lisette Kornacher continued to find its way into various publications and is considered to be " dear historical legend ”.

Research literature

  • Werner von Froreich: Eberhard Gmelin - between Kerner and Kleist. In: Nachrichtenblatt für die Stadt Weinsberg , January 19, 1973, January 26, 1973 and February 9, 1973. [In it the Zobel thesis.]
  • Werner von Froreich: Eberhard Gmelin - a great doctor. In: Swabia and Franconia. Heimatgeschichtliche Blätter der Heilbronner Voice 20 (1974), 5, pp. 1–2.
  • Uwe Jacobi: Käthchen von Heilbronn. Legend and reality . In: Heilbronn. They made history. Twelve portraits from the life and work of famous Heilbronn residents . Heilbronn printing and publishing house, Heilbronn 1977 ( series on Heilbronn , 7). Pp. 35-42.
  • Uwe Jacobi: New thesis on the Urkäthchen: Dr. C. Schrenk: If so, then Zobel. In: Schwaben and Franken 40 (1994), 5, p. 4. [Concerns Elisabetha ("Lisette") Gottliebin Klett, geb. Kornacher, and Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel.]
  • Christhard Schrenk : Old news about the Käthchen. Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel versus Lisette Kornacher. In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history sheets of the Heilbronn voice . Heilbronn, October 1992, pp. I - IV.
  • Christhard Schrenk: The little girl from Heilbronn. Some reflections on Kleist's knight play. In: Yearbook of the Historisches Verein Heilbronn , Volume 33 (1994), pp. 5-43.
  • - [Reprint in another form] in:
  • Christhard Schrenk: The little girl from Heilbronn. Some reflections on kleist's knight play (1994) . (Heilbronn 2005). ( Käthchen in Heilbronn . Commissioned by the city of Heilbronn. Ed. By Günther Emig), pp. 22–43.
  • Christhard Schrenk: Heilbronn Urkäthchen? Lisette Kornacher (1773–1858) and Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel (1774–1806) , in: Christhard Schrenk (ed.), Heilbronner Köpfe , Volume 5. Pictures of life from five centuries , Heilbronn City Archives 2009 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives , 56), ISBN 978-3-940646-05-7 , pp. 89-100.
  • Stadtarchiv Heilbronn [Director: Christhard Schrenk] [Corporate author]: Das Käthchen von Heilbronn ; Internet address: https://stadtarchiv.heilbronn.de/stadtgeschichte/geschichte-az/k/kaethchen-von-heilbronn.html . [Lisette Kornacher is not named; but it is alluded to because of its presence in the history of the impact - it was the first of "two of the medical histories published by Gmelin (1789 and 1791)" in 1789. The possible interpretation of Kleist's term "invention" as a rhetorical term for "inventio" has not yet been considered.]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Friedrich August Weber : Description of the disease history of Madame [Margarethe] von Tschiffeli [, born. Steck]. In: Archives for Magnetism and Somnambulism. Sixth piece. Edited by Mr. [Lord] Councilor Boeckmann [Johann Lorenz Böckmann], Professor of Carlsruhe [Karlsruhe in Baden]. Strasburg [Strasbourg in Alsace], in the academic bookshop. 1787 . - This therapist was the daughter of Johann Friedrich Steck ( Landvogt von Trachselwald ) and widow of the Bernese agronomist and choir judge (clerk of the Supreme Marriage Court) Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli the Younger (1716–1780)
  2. ↑ The Tübingen doctor Christian Friedrich (von) Reuß (1745–1813) published two books in 1778 in which he carefully documented the spread of the magnetic cures by Maximilian Hell , SJ., And Franz Anton Mesmer . Cf. [Christian Friedrich Reuß:] Collection of the latest printed and written messages from Magnet-Curen, especially the Mesmeric ones. Leipzig, from Christian Gottlob Hilschern [Hilscher] , 1778 . - [Edition A:] [3] Bl, 194 p .; [Edition B:] [2] p., 309 p., [2] folded sheets. See the reference to it in Reinhard Breymayer: advertisement section [...]. In: Johann Friedrich Jüdler, Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Erhard Weigel: Real advantages for information . [...] Rediscovered and ed. by Reinhard Breymayer. Heck, Dußlingen 2014, pp. 163–172, here p. 167. CF Reuss was a cousin of Jakob Gottlieb Reuss (1753–1839), who since 1780 archivist in the knightly canton Kraichgau of the knightly district of Swabia of the imperial knighthood in Heilbronn, since 1795 a consultant there (Legal advisor), 1807–1822 Royal Württemberg Higher Government Council in Stuttgart.
  3. ↑ a b Helmut Schmolz , Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn. History and life of a city . 2nd Edition. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1973, ISBN 3-87437-062-3 . P. 89
  4. ↑ born Heilbronn am Neckar July 3, 1774, d. Esslingen am Neckar July 11, 1850 a daughter of Georg Christoph Kornacher's professional colleague Philipp Gottlob Daniel Aff (1748–1791), archivist and since 1781 senator, i.e. councilor, in Heilbronn. About his wife, Maria Friederike , geb. Uhl, like Lisette Kornacher, Charlotte Aff was a granddaughter of the rose landlord Johann Georg Uhl. Cf. Reinhard Breymayer : Between Princess Antonia of Württemberg and Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn. News on the magnetic and tension fields of Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger . Heck, Dußlingen (2010), pp. 52–56.
  5. ↑ See Breymayer, ibid., P. 55.
  6. ↑ See the information in the discussion on the Wikipedia article Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel under Discussion: Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel .
  7. ↑ Emma Juliane (Julie) von Einsiedel Erbfrau auf Gnandstein, born. Kunze (1786–1849), had been the wife of Alexander August von Einsiedel from December 1808, heir to Gnandstein (1780–1840). As a lord of the manor, he was the heir of the Gnandstein manor. Gnandstein has been a village in the Kohren-Sahlis community in the Leipzig district since 1996 . In principle, it is not impossible that Kleist's unrequited affection for the young Dresden artist Kunze influenced the poet's knightly play somewhere . In any case, the former foster daughter of Schiller's friend Christian Gottfried Körner (1756–1831) and foster sister of his son Carl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) was apparently seen in her circle of acquaintances as a model for the figure of Käthchen.
personal data
SURNAME Kornacher, Lisette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kornacher, Elisabetha Gottliebin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Heilbronn mayor's daughter, was partially seen as a role model for Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1858
Place of death Heilbronn