Marie Karoline von Battenberg
Marie Karoline von Battenberg (born February 15, 1852 in Strasbourg ; † June 20, 1923 in Schönberg ) was a princess of Battenberg and by marriage was princess and countess of Erbach-Schönberg . She worked as a writer and translator.
Life
Marie was the eldest child and the only daughter of Prince Alexander of Hesse and the Rhine (1823-1888), founder of the House of Battenberg, and his morganatic wife, the Countess or Princess Julie von Battenberg (1825-1895), daughter of the Polish - Russian Count Hans Moritz Hauke . As a result of their parents' inappropriate marriage, Marie and her siblings were excluded from the succession in Hesse and carried the title of Prince and Princess of Battenberg, respectively.
The princess married on April 29, 1871 in Darmstadt Count Gustav Ernst of Erbach-Schönberg (1840-1908) , who was elevated to the Hessian princes 1903 and because of the kinship of his wife Queen Victoria and Czar Alexander II. In relationship stand . Marie's brother Alexander had been Prince of Bulgaria since 1879. She reports on a visit to him in her work My Journey to Bulgaria in 1884 .
Marie is the translator of the books The Gate of Paradise. An Easter Eight Dream by Edith Jacob and A Journey to Siberia by Kate Marsden . She also published her memoirs, in which her relationship with her mentally unstable son Maximilian plays an essential role.
progeny
- Alexander (1872–1944), Prince and Count of Erbach-Schönberg
- ⚭ 1900 Princess Elisabeth of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1873–1961)
- Maximilian (1878-1892), mentally disabled
- Viktor (1880-1967)
- ⚭ 1909 Countess Erzsébet Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsõvidék (1888–1977)
- Edda (1883–1966)
- ⚭ 1910 Prince Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1870–1931)
Fonts
- My trip to Bulgaria in 1884 . Heller, Leipzig 1916.
- Decisive years. 1859 - 1866 - 1870. From my childhood and girlhood. Wollermann, Braunschweig 1921.
- From quiet and turbulent times. Memories from my life . For the bookstore HL Schlapp, Antiquariat in Darmstadt 1921.
- Announced and faded away. Verlag der "Litera" -A.-G., Darmstadt 1923. (This and the two editions listed above in the same design (gold-embossed half-linen, each volume with a different black and white photo board as a frontispiece: girl, young and old princess) are in Aus silent and turbulent times listed as memories, Vol. 1–3.)
- Memoirs of Princess Marie zu Erbach-Schönberg, Princess von Battenberg 1852–1923 . o. V., 1958, ISBN 3-922781-75-6 .
literature
- Erbach-Schönberg, Marie Countess too . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 194 ( digitized version ).
- Erbach-Schönberg, Countess Marie too . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 504 ( digitized version ). - Addendum.
- Viktor von Fritsche: Interesting female figures from old and modern times. In: Wiener Salonblatt , No. 24/1928 (LIX. Volume), November 25, 1928, p. 17. (Online at ANNO ). .
Web links
- Literature by and about Marie Karoline von Battenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Marie Karoline von Battenberg in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Battenberg, Marie Karoline from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Battenberg, Marie von; Erbach-Schönberg, Marie zu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess zu Battenberg, by marriage Princess zu Erbach-Schönberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1923 |
| Place of death | Schoenberg |