Luise von Eichendorff
Luise ( falsely Louise) Antonia Nepomucene Johanna Baroness von Eichendorff (* 13. April 1804 in Castle Lubowitz , Upper Silesia ; † 25. December 1883 in Vienna - Alsergrund ) was the youngest sister of the poet lawyer Joseph and Wilhelm von Eichendorff and longtime pal of Adalbert Benefactor .
Life
Origin, youth and education
The noble Catholic family of the Barons von Eichendorff had lived in Moravia and Silesia since the 17th century. The ancestor Hartwig Erdmann von Eichendorff came from Zerbow to Sedlnitz in Moravia and died in German Krawarn in 1683 . Luise Freiin von Eichendorff was born on April 13, 1804 at Lubowitz Castle as the daughter of a Prussian officer, Baron Adolf Theodor Rudolf von Eichendorff (1756-1818) and his wife Karoline (1766-1822), née Freiin von Kloch. The brothers Wilhelm and Joseph studied at the time (1803-1805) at the Catholic University Leopoldina in Breslau . As a toddler she was looked after by a nanny from Bohemia.
From 1811 Luise lived in a monastery in Teschen , then in Troppau , and was taught there in a girls' boarding school. In the years 1813-1814 she received piano lessons. The father died on August 27, 1818 at Lubowitz Castle and Luise came to live with her mother in Lubowitz. When her mother died on April 15, 1822, two days after Luise's 18th birthday, the orphaned baroness von Lubowitz moved to Schillersdorf in Moravia-Silesia and lived with Maria Anna von Eichendorff, née Hoverden (1781-1831), one of them Relatives on the father's side, called 'aunt'.
In the Austrian Empire
After the death of her 'aunt' in Schillersdorf in December 1830, Luise inherited 3,000 Reichstaler and left the province of Silesia forever. In 1831 she moved to the Austrian Empire, first to Vienna, then to her older brother Wilhelm von Eichendorff, who lived as an Imperial and Royal District Chief , on the other side of the Alps in Trento . She traveled several times to Venice with Wilhelm and his wife Julie, née Fischnaller .
In 1844 she moved to the spa town of Baden, south of Vienna, and then stayed in Lower Austria until the end of her life . Shortly after moving, she bought a country house there. In October 1846 her brother Joseph von Eichendorff and his wife from Danzig first traveled to Vienna; then from the beginning of May 1847 he lived for two months with Luise in Baden. During this time Luise met the writer Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868) and his wife Amalia, née Mohaupt, in Vienna through her brother. She remained friends with Stifter for about two decades - they met in 1852, 1853 and 1860 at her home in Baden and in 1854 at the Stifters in Linz . The correspondence lasted until 1867. In 1851 Luise traveled to Sedlnitz to relax , which had been in the possession of the original nobility von Eichendorff for almost 200 years - a few years later she spent the winter months 1867–1868 there. In 1863 she considered the possibility of selling the country house in Baden and moving to Weikersdorf .
Her oldest brother Wilhelm died on January 4th, 1849 in Innsbruck . After her brother Joseph's death in Neisse in November 1857 , his son Hermann von Eichendorff (1815–1900), who lived in Aachen and worked as a lawyer, contacted her and asked her to recollect his father's biography. At your initiative, the sonnet of Joseph Germany's future savior appeared posthumously in the Wiener Zeitung on May 25, 1859 .
When her health deteriorated, she was taken to a clinic in Vienna-Alsergrund on June 5, 1879, where she died at the age of 79 on Boxing Day 1883. According to her request, the burial took place on December 28, 1883 in the St. Helena cemetery in Helenental near Baden.
Her memoir Dreams and Bliss of Childhood are lost. The 65 letters to Adalbert Stifter and 21 to his wife were kept in the Stifter archive of the Academy of Sciences in Prague . The epistolography was published in 1940 by Wilhelm Kosch , then a professor in Nijmegen .
literature
- The misunderstood sister - her friendship with Stifter . In: Veronika Beci : Joseph von Eichendorff. Biography . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-538-07238-1 , p. 188.
- Wilhelm Kosch : Luise von Eichendorff in her letters to Adalbert Stifter . "Der Wächter" Verlag, Nymwegen 1940 and 1948.
- Hermann Kunisch : Eichendorff, Luise Antonia Nepomucene Johanna von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 373 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Günther Schiwy : Eichendorff. The poet in his time. A biography . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46673-7 , pp. 587-594.
- Augustin Bogislaus Weltzel : History of the noble and baronial family of Eichendorff . 1876, (2nd edition, 1992), p. 35.
- Berta Vorbach : Adalbert Stifter and the woman . Sudetendeutscher Verlag Franz Kraus , Reichenburg 1936, pp. 36–38.
- Gustav Wilhelm: Adalbert Stifter and the siblings Joseph and Luise von Eichendorff . In: Aurora. A romantic almanac 2/1932, pp. 52–60.
- Gustav Wilhelm: Letters from Baron Luise von Eichendorff to her nephew Hermann . In: Aurora. A romantic almanac 4/1934, pp. 3-19.
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph von Eichendorff: Germany's future savior. The German Poetry Library, 1857, accessed on March 19, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eichendorff, Luise von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eichendorff, Luise Antonia Nepmucene Johanna Freiin von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sister of the poet lawyers Joseph and Wilhelm von Eichendorff |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lubowitz Castle , Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1883 |
| Place of death | Vienna - Alsergrund |