Ottilie von Below

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Ottilie Albertine von Below , b. Freiin von Hackewitz, (born May 2, 1837 in Freienwalde , † July 28, 1894 in Rostock ) was a German writer .

Life

She was born in Freienwalde as the daughter of the officer von Hackewitz. Her father died in 1843. In 1859 she married the officer Maximilian von Below, who died in France in 1870 of a war wound. The marriage had several children. After his death, Below lived first in Rostock, from 1886 in Doberan and later again in Rostock, where she died in 1894.

Below turned to poetry after the death of her husband. A collection of her poems was published in 1878 under the title Autumn Blossoms . Two poems, the parable and the morning song , were also published by Karl Schrattenthal in an anthology in 1888. Stories and other works appeared under the pseudonym Ambrosius Scharf , for example, in 1879 under the pseudonym she published the critical "chat" Critique as a healing art in the German monthly newspapers .

literature

  • Below, Ottilie von . In: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 176.
  • Below, Ottilie von . In: 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. 20.
  • Below, Ottilie von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 481 ( digitized version ).
  • Below, Ottilie v. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 49 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ottilie von Below: parable , morning song . In: Karl Schrattenthal (Ed.): Our women in a selection from their poems . Greiner & Pfeiffer , Stuttgart 1888, pp. 15-16.
  2. ↑ Heinrich Hart, Julius Hart, Max Stempel (ed.): Deutsche Monatsblätter , No. 2, 1879, p. 222f.
personal data
SURNAME Below, Ottilie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scharf, Ambrosius (pseudonym); Below, Ottilie Albertine von (full name); Hackewitz, Ottilie Freiin von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Freienwalde (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1894
Place of death Rostock