Pauline Gotter

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Pauline Gotter (born December 29, 1786 in Gotha ; † December 31, 1854 in Gotha) was the second wife of Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling , friend of Louise Seidler and Sylvie von Ziegesar .

Life

Angelica Pauline Amalie Gotter was born on December 29, 1786 in Gotha. Her parents were the theater writer, privy councilor and archivist Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter and Louise Gotter geb. Stieler. Her mother was a close friend of Caroline Schlegel , b. Michaelis, while her father had been close friends with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe since his youth .

Pauline Gotter had two sisters and had known Goethe and Caroline Schlegel from childhood. In her youth she was friends with Sylvie von Ziegesar and the painter Louise Seidler . Together with her friends, she had access to the high intellectual circles of Jena, the creative minds at the time such as Friedrich Schiller , Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt , the brothers Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel , Friedrich Tieck , Clemens Brentano , Johann Heinrich Voss , Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus , Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer , Zacharias Werner and others.

Pauline Gotter was prejudiced for her mother's friend and raved about her. Caroline Schlegel was a witty woman who had sided with the French Revolution and almost got arrested for treason for it. The philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling , who was a rising star in science in Jena and an ardent advocate of Johann Gottlieb Fichte , first fell in love with her daughter from his first marriage, Auguste Böhmer, who was almost the same age as Pauline Gotter. When she fell ill with dysentery in 1800 , in his desperation he tried to help with his own means, but without being able to prevent death. Pauline Gotter and her family had to witness how accusations were made against Schelling and rumors spread. “Schelling”, says Dorothea Veit, “has 'fudged'”. The Jenaische Allgemeine Literaturzeitung spread that "he heals 'ideally' and kills 'real'". Rumors, accusations and gossip persisted when August Wilhelm Schlegel and his wife Caroline divorced Goethe in 1803, so that she could marry Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling two months later. Both fled Jena in 1804 and moved to Würzburg , where Schelling was given a chair at the university and where Caroline Schelling helped her new husband.

In 1806 Pauline Gotter stayed with her friend Sylvie von Ziegesar in Karlsbad , where Goethe courted her friend and dedicated a few poems to her. Pauline's other friend Louise Seidler also enjoyed the favor of the German poet prince, who commissioned a portrait from her in 1811.

Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling

Caroline Schelling, divorced Schlegel, died unexpectedly on September 7, 1809. Pauline Gotter's family and herself were dismayed by her death. In letters and on visits they tried to comfort Schelling, who was withdrawing more and more and was exposed to further attacks in science and by the church. This increasingly confidential correspondence led to her engagement to Pauline Gotter.

On June 11, 1812, Pauline Gotter married Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, eleven years her senior, who was raised to the nobility in the same year and was offered a position at the Academy of Sciences in Munich . Their first child was born on December 17, 1813. Five more followed. One of the daughters was named Caroline in honor of his first wife. Pauline Schelling made use of the management of the house and the upbringing of her children. Her letters show a graceful, animated naturalness, which, however, did not even remotely match the spiritual significance of his first wife. In this respect, it was no substitute for Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, who became more difficult on a human level and increasingly withdrew philosophically into an indefinable mythology and who, to his annoyance, had to follow Hegel's scientific rise at the same time.

Pauline Schelling died on December 31, 1854, four months after her husband.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Jodl :  Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 19 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Gods, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schelling, Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1854
Place of death Gotha