Marie of Augustin

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Marie Baronin von Augustin (born Regelsberg von Thurnberg ; born December 23, 1806 in Werschetz , Austrian Empire , † February 12, 1886 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and writer . She also wrote under the pseudonym Marie von Thurnberg .

Life

Marie Augustin was the daughter of the Imperial Austrian lieutenant colonel usually mountain of Thurnberg in Werschetz in Banat born, spent her childhood from the age of five, however, been to Vienna. She received a good education from her mother, a Transylvanian Saxon woman , and was already writing poetry at the age of 14. The story Theodora was written at the age of 15, but like the poems it remained unpublished. After the death of her mother in 1828, Maria von Augustin turned to oil painting . In the following years numerous miniature portraits and copies were madewell-known works from the Esterházy Gallery, e.g. B. Works by Raphael Mengs , Leonardo da Vinci and Peter Paul Rubens . She made Madonnas and altarpieces for various churches and monasteries, e.g. B. 14 pictures of the stations of the cross , which only showed portraits and were created in 1834 for the church in Pyhra near Sankt Pölten .

In 1835 Marie von Augustin married the then captain and military writer Ferdinand Baron von Augustin, with whom she left Vienna. The following years were characterized by constant changes of location due to the husband's profession. Marie von Augustin now turned increasingly to literature and published novels, novels and poems from the 1840s. In 1885 she became the first president of the “Association of Women and Women Writers in Vienna” and was active in the women's movement.

Works (selection)

  • Novellas and short stories. 4 volumes. Hirschfeld, Vienna / Leipzig 1843–1845. ( Digitized 1st ribbon )
  • The virgin's most beautiful goal: toilet gift for young women who come into the world after they have been raised. Hirschfeld, Vienna / Leipzig 1845. ( digitized version )
  • The Fisherman's Daughter (1844)
  • A woman's thoughts on the innate rights of women. Doll, Vienna 1846. ( digitized version )
  • The gray sister (1846)
  • The Sausenburger Gorge (1846)
  • Sprouts of memory. Latest novellas (1851)
  • The rose at the lake (1852)
  • Soul sounds. Poems as a toilet gift for young women. Lechner, Vienna 1864. ( digitized version )
  • The rose of Granada. Romantic poem. Dirnböck, Vienna 1873. ( digitized version )

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Augustin, Maria Freiin von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 91 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • JS: Marie von Thurnberg. (Marie Baroness von Augustin). Literary-biographical sketch . In: Frauenblätter . 1st year, no.20, October 15, 1872.
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Reclam, Leipzig 1913, p. 91f.
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 11.
  • Susanne Kord: A look behind the scenes. German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries . Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-476-00835-5 , ( results of women's research 27), p. 330.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The literature mentions December 23, 1810 as the date of birth, but this is implausible because the Vienna Lutheran City Church, tom. XV, no. 91 ( facsimile ) an age of death of 79 years is given. A corresponding entry can be found on December 23, 18 06 (church book Werschetz 1806, page 59, quoted from the Werschetz local family book , accessed on August 16, 2020). The practice of moving the year of birth a few years forward is typical of the time.
  2. ↑ Death book Vienna Lutheran City Church, tom. XV, No. 91 ( facsimile ). All older literature names February 13, 1886 as the date of death.
  3. ↑ The famous Esterházy Gallery contained 637 paintings and over 3500 etchings. It was sold to the Kingdom of Hungary in 1870 and formed the basis of today's Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.
  4. ↑ The Austrian biographical lexicon already gives him the rank of colonel.
  5. ↑ He wrote under the pseudonym Friedrich Aarau.
personal data
SURNAME Augustin, Marie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Augustin, Marie Baroness von (full name); Thurnberg, Regelsberg von (maiden name); Thurnberg, Marie von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Werschetz , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1886
Place of death Vienna