Maria Johanna of Aachen

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Maria Johanna von Aachen (aka Maria Johanna Katharina Erika Elisabeth von Amboten) (born April 21, 1755 in Vechta , † January 21, 1845 in Münster ) was a Westphalian writer . (Pseudonyms: Maria; J .; JvA; Johanna; Heimchen).

Life

Maria Johanna von Aachen was born as the daughter of Major Lewin Friedrich von Ambotten; he came from a family in Courland and was in the service of the Archbishop of Munster. In 1777 she married the self-authoring Prussian captain Klemens August von Aachen († July 15, 1808). She was also active as a writer since their wedding. First poems and essays were mostly given to the press by other people, as she never thought of publishing her poems herself. In her mostly sad poems, she processed the loss of all her children and her husband.

She sponsored the magazine editor and anthologist Friedrich Raßmann and was a member of the literary circle of Elisa von Ahlefeldt and Elise Rüdiger . In the correspondence of Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Maria Johanna von Aachen is mentioned frequently, in her comedy Perdu! (1840) possibly caricatured in the figure of Frau von Austen.

family

She married Klemens August von Aachen in 1777 († July 15, 1808). The couple had several children:

  • Ewald († 1816), officer
  • Levin Friedrich († 1812), as a lieutenant in the 5th Westphalian Line Regiment in Russia
  • Bernhardine (* April 5, 1793; † March 17, 1830) ⚭ 1825 Friedrich Karl von Schauroth (* May 3, 1790; † October 16, 1861)
  • Sophie (* 1784; † October 12, 1858) ⚭ 1816 Wilhelm Christoph Jakob August von Haas (1785-1855)

Works (selection)

  • Münstrische Monatsschrift 1785f., No.1 and no.3-11 [14 Ged., Pseud. J for Jeanette]
  • Raßmann: Mimigardia 1811/1812 [5 Ged., Pseud. Maria]
  • Raßmann: Paperback for 1814 [1 Ged., Pseud. Maria]
  • Grote / Raßmann: Thusnelda 1816 [4 Ged., Pseud. J]
  • Raßmann: Collection of triplet games 1817 [3 repr., Triplet]
  • Hermann 1817 [1 Ged.] - Grote: Zeitlosen 1817 [4 Ged., Pseud. JvA]
  • Friedrich Philipp Wilmsen: The beauty of nature, described by German sample poets. Berlin 1817 [1 Ged.]
  • Grote: Münsterland poetic paperback 1818 [12 Ged.]
  • Raßmann: Rhein.-Westf. Musenalmanach 1822 [3 Ged., Pseud. Cricket]
  • Rousseau: West German Musenalmanach 1823 [2 Ged.]
  • Raßmann: Musenalmanach from Rhineland and Westphalia 1823 [1 Ged., Pseud. Heimchen]
  • General Entertainment sheets 1824-1835 [Ged.] - Rousseau: Göthes Ehrentempel 2, 1828 [2 Ged.]
  • Coelestina 1838: Maria-Buchen. A legend [pseud. Johanna]
  • Minden Sunday newspaper 1817, St. 21 [Ged.]
  • Dresdner Abendztg. 1817, No. 133f., 245; Vol. 1818, No. 78, 107; Born in 1823, No. 76 [Ged.]
  • Schütz: House friend 1820 [6 Ged.]
  • Morgenbl. 1820, No. 1, 115, 131 [2 Ged., Charaden]
  • Funcke: Rhine. Entertainment bl. 1822, No. 48; Born in 1823, No. 3 [Ged.]
  • Entertainment bl. for town and country 1836-1848 [several coins]

literature

  • Levin Schücking: Memoirs. Vol. 1. Leipzig 1886, p. 106ff.
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's correspondence.
  • F. Zurbonsen: The former Freischarführer von Lützow in Münster and his district 1817-1830, in: Zeitschr. for fatherland. Business and Alterthumskunde 58, 1900, pp. 186-217, here: p. 200.
  • Gödden / Nölle-Hornkamp: Literature Guide 1992 [Keyword: Münster].
  • Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel, The German Writers of the Nineteenth Century , p.1
  • Ernst Rassmann, News of the Life and Writings of Münsterland Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries , p.1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Napoleon's era. Maria Johanna of Aachen
  2. ↑ Sources and research on the history of the city of Münster, 1984, p. 194
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1873, p.590
personal data
SURNAME Aachen, Maria Johanna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amboten, Maria Johanna Katharina Erika Elisabeth von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Vechta
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1845
Place of death Muenster