Minna von Mädler

Minna von Mädler (also: Maedler , née von Witte ) (born October 15, 1804 in Hanover , † March 5, 1891, ibid) was a German poet and translator .

Life

Minna von Witte was born as the daughter of the Hanover consistorial and court councilor Christian von Witte (1773-1854). Her mother Wilhelmine Sophie Elisabeth (née Boettcher) (1777-1854) became famous for making the first moon globe in 1839, which was recognized by Alexander von Humboldt and John Herschel . The lawyer Friedrich Ernst Witte was her brother.

At the age of 16 Minna von Witte was inspired by a series of sketches by the painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg to write her first larger poem, which came out as a book in 1826 together with the sketches. As a result of a visit by the widowed Landgrave Elisabeth von Hessen-Homburg , daughter Georg III. von England , in Hanover, Minna Witte became their partner and in 1834 she published a series of sonnets with her.

In 1840 she married the astronomer Johann Heinrich Mädler . After his death in particular, she began writing her poetry from 1874. Since then she has also made a name for herself as a translator from Spanish and English .

Works (incomplete)

Lilli in ten songs . With 10 coppers, signed by Ramberg, Hannover 1826.
Genius. Imagination. Imagination. A cycle of twenty pictures based on designs by Her Royal Highness the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, drawn by JH Ramberg . With explanatory sonnets by M [inna] W [itte], Hanover, 1834.
Paradise and the Peri . After Thomas Moore . 1837.
The psalms. Selection translated metrically . 1838.
Poems Reyher, Mitau 1848
Electricity sacrifice , poem. 1850.
One night's misunderstandings , According to Goldsmith . 1852.
Anna. A Livonian picture of life , Rümpler, Hanover 1858

literature

Dieter B. Herrmann: Mädler, Johann Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 634 ( digitized version ).
Madler, Minna von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 6 ( digitized version ).
Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits , Hannover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , p. 248
Hugo Thielen : Mädler, Johann Heinrich. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 243 and others; online through google books
Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 . Volume 2, pp. 877-878.

Web links

Poems online at deutsche-liebeslyrik.de
Minna von Mädler (1804 - 1891) in the digital text collection of older literature in Estonia , EEVA

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Hugo Thielen: Mädler, Johann Heinrich (see literature)
^ ^A ^b Franz Brümmer : Deutsches Dichter-Lexikon . 1876, quoted from deutsche-liebeslyrik.de
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Mädler, Minna von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 6 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Madler, Minna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maedler, Minna von; Witte, Minna von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 1891
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] Hugo Thielen: Mädler, Johann Heinrich (see literature)

[Dichterlex-2] A ^b Franz Brümmer : Deutsches Dichter-Lexikon . 1876, quoted from deutsche-liebeslyrik.de

[Pataky-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Mädler, Minna von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 6 ( digitized version ).