Louise von Gall

Johanna Udalrike Louise Gerhardine Freiin von Gall (born September 15, 1815 in Darmstadt , † March 16, 1855 in Sassenberg ) was a German writer.

Life

Louise von Gall was the daughter of Major General Ludwig Freiherr von Gall (1769–1815), who served in Hessen-Darmstadt, and of Friederike von Gall (born von Müller, 1784–1841). She spent her childhood in Darmstadt, lived in the Schenkendorf boarding school in Mannheim in 1830/31 , learned English, French and Italian and received singing lessons. She went on several trips with her mother and lived in Vienna for a while . There she published her first work under the pseudonym Ludwig Leo. After her mother's death in 1841, she returned to Darmstadt, where she made friends with Ida and Ferdinand Freiligrath . She spent the summer months of 1842 in St. Goar with the Freiligraths and their friends . At the suggestion of Freiligrath, she began correspondence with Levin Schücking at the end of 1842 , with whom she married on October 7, 1843 in Darmstadt. Louise Schücking followed her husband at all stages of his eventful life as a writer. She had five children with him: their son Lothar was born in Augsburg on December 19, 1844, their daughter Gerhardine in Cologne on January 10, 1846, Josephine (called Theo) on April 19, 1850 and July 13, 1852 Son Adrian followed. The international lawyer and pacifist Walther Schücking is her grandson. In September 1852 the Schücking family moved to Sassenberg near Warendorf , where Louise Schücking felt strange and unhappy as a Protestant in a strictly Catholic environment. An attempt in autumn 1853 to gain a foothold in Darmstadt failed. Their daughter Adolphine was born on September 19, 1854 and died on December 9, 1854. A quarter of a year later, on March 16, 1855, Louise Schücking also died. Against her express request, she was buried in Sassenberg. Her grave in front of the church there has been preserved.

Louise Schücking wrote (under her maiden name Louise von Gall) numerous short stories, some plays and two novels. She worked on several journals and almanacs between 1840 and 1854.

Louise von Gall, like Ferdinand von Gall and August von Gall, belong to the von Gall family who still have descendants in Germany today.

Works (selection)

Women's novels . 2 volumes, Jonghans, Darmstadt 1845
Against the current. Novel . 2 volumes, Schlodtmann, Bremen 1851
The new crusader. Novel . A. Duncker, Berlin 1853
Family pictures . 2 volumes, Kober, Prague 1854 (with Levin Schücking)
Family stories . 2 volumes, Kober, Prague 1854 (with Levin Schücking)
Women's life. Novellas and Stories. 2 volumes, ed. U. introduced by Levin Schücking. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1856
A pious lie . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 6. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 105-175. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )

literature

Hugh Powell: Louise von Gall. Your world and your work . Translated from the American by Marie-Louise Brüggemann. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2009. (Publications of the literature commission for Westphalia, volume 37) ISBN 978-3-89528-762-6
Margarete Dierks (Ed.): "... because it is completely natural". Louise von Gall - from biography, letters and works. A contribution to the history of mentality. Liebig, Darmstadt 1996 (Darmstädter Schriften, Volume 67), ISBN 3-87390-113-7
Constantin von Wurzbach : Gall, Luise von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 5th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch.), Vienna 1859, p. 67 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME	Gall, Louise of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gall, Johanna Udalrike Louise Gerhardine Freiin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH	March 16, 1855
Place of death	Sassenberg