Maria Anna Czartoryska
Maria Anna Duchess of Württemberg born Princess Czartoryska (born March 15, 1768 in Warsaw , † October 21, 1854 in Paris ) was a Polish noblewoman and writer.
Life
Maria Anna was the daughter of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski from his marriage to Isabella born. Countess of Flemming . She was married in 1784 to Duke Ludwig von Württemberg , a great-nephew of Frederick II of Prussia, who for a time was also considered a possible candidate for the Polish throne.
As a Prussian general, Ludwig entered the Polish service as a result of the Polish-Prussian alliance against Russia in 1790 and, as lieutenant general, became the commander of the Lithuanian troops and governor of Warsaw. However, when Prussia left the Alliance at the beginning of the Russo-Polish War in 1792 and Ludwig, whose sister Sophie Dorothee was married to the Russian Tsarevich Paul , contributed to the Polish defeat when Russian troops marched into Poland by inactivity, he was considered a traitor to the Poles. Maria Anna divorced him in 1792. In 1793 the second partition of Poland followed . From this unhappy marriage there was only one son, Adam (1792-1847), who stayed with the father after the divorce and later became a lieutenant general in the Russian service.
Maria Anna Wirtemberska then lived on her country estate in Wysock in Habsburg Galicia . She was very close to her mother Izabela Czartoryska - a committed Polish patriot - who had a palace built for her in the park of her castle in Puławy . After the November uprising of 1830 and her flight from Puławy, which was confiscated by the Russians, Izabela Czartoryska withdrew to live with her daughter in Wysock, where she died in 1835. Her son, Maria Anna's brother Adam Jerzy Czartoryski , emigrated to Paris, where he acquired the Hôtel Lambert in 1842 and made it a center of Polish emigration in the 19th century.
Frédéric Chopin dedicated his Vier Mazurken op.30, composed in 1836/37 to Maria Anna .
Maria Anna Czartoryska (Maria Wirtemberska) has made a name for herself as the author of comedies, essays, poems and the extremely successful Polish novel Malwina or Scharfblick des Herzens (Warsaw 1816, Malwina, czyli Domyslnosci serca ).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Czartoryska, Maria Anna (in the mother's article) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 91 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Maria Anna Czartoryska in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czartoryska, Maria Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maria Anna von Czartoryski |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish nobleman and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1854 |
| Place of death | Paris |