Natalie Baring

Natalie Eleonore Helene Baring (born December 21, 1833 in Burgdorf (Hanover region) , † December 10, 1913 in Bielefeld ) was a German writer .

family

Natalie Baring comes from the Hanoverian line of the Baring family . She was the fourth child and the oldest daughter of the theologian and pastor Karl Baring (1803–1868) and Emilie geb. Schneider (1807–1863), daughter of the captain of the staff a. D. and chief boniteurs for the tax district of Osnabrück , Johann Georg Christian Schneider (1774–1854). Baring's mother died early of typhus . Baring had seven siblings, including the doctor William Georg Ernst Baring .

Live and act

Baring helped her father run the Obershagen parish at an early age and supported him in his pastoral work.

Baring's younger sister Mathilde (1835–1867) had married the local pastor August Wiegand (1817–1879) in Woltershausen . When Mathilde died, Baring was in charge of Wiegand's childless household until his death. During this time she turned to writing and published several volumes of Hannöversche Dorfgeschichten from 1876 to 1878 . Baring also wrote a number of short stories in Lüneburg Low German .

In Lauterberg she was after the death Wiegands for two years as a nurse worked since her father died during her years at Wiegand. She lived briefly with her widowed sister Agnes (1842– after 1918) in Bielefeld , and from 1895 with her nephew Adolf Baring (1860–1945) in Leipzig , where she lived around 1900. She spent her old age again in Bielefeld, where she also died.

Works

• 1876: Hannöversche village stories (Volume 1)
• 1878: Hannöversche Dorfgeschichten (Volume 2)
• 1878: Hannöversche village stories (Volume 3)

literature

• Adolf Baring : The Baring family, in particular the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms in: German Roland Book for Gender Studies , published by the "Roland" Association for the Promotion of Stamm-, Wappen- und Siegelkunde EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918, P. 7ff.
• Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 120–121.
• 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. 15.