Marie von Bruiningk

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Marie von Bruiningk (also Méry von Bruiningk , born von Lieven and since 1826 Princess von Lieven, born August 11, 1818 in Kerstenshof , † January 22, 1853 in London ) was a German-Baltic aristocrat who campaigned for the German idea of ​​unity.

Life

Since 1839 Marie lived in Hellenorm in the summer . and during the winter in Dorpat . In 1847 she met Emanuel Geibel as well as the philologist Gottfried Kinkel and from 1848 onwards she became enthusiastic about the German idea of ​​unity. In the 1840s she was a leading figure in the radical intellectual democratic circle around the von Bruiningk family and corresponded with Karl Marx and Alexander Ivanovich hearts . In order to support the liberation of Kinkel, who was imprisoned during the German Revolution in 1848/1849 , she donated a contribution to the “Fund for the Liberation of Kinkel”. As a result, her correspondence was confiscated by the police in Hamburg . Her poor health caused her to leave Livonia in 1850 to travel through Germany and Italy . In 1851 Marie moved to London, where the social center for German political refugees was established.

Origin and family

Marie came from the highly respected Baltic-Russian noble family von Lieven . Her parents were Johann von Lieven (1775–1848) and Marie, née von Anrep (1797–1839). In 1839 Marie married the district judge of Dorpat, Baron Ludolph August Bruiningk (1809-1891). Her sons were Edmund von Bruiningk (1846 - 1885) and Hermann von Bruiningk (1849–1927), and the von Bruiningk family died out with their second son in 1927.

literature

  • Hermann Baron Bruiningk: The Bruiningk family in Livonia: family history news: with 23 illustrations in the text. Commissioned by N. Kymmels Buchhandlung, 1913 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
  • Georg von Rauch : A Baltic woman in the vortex of the year 1848. In: Yearbook of Baltic Germans. 10, 1963, 29-36.
  • Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Bruiningk, Gottfried Robert Hermann Frhr. from . In: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg. From the Middle Ages to the present . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-091213-5 , pp. 306 ( books.google.de - Reprint 2011, excerpt).

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Bruiningk, Marie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruiningk, Méry von; Lieven, Marie von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic aristocrat
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Kerstenshof
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1853
Place of death London