Sabina Elisabeth Oelgard von Bassewitz

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Sabina Elisabeth Oelgard Countess von Bassewitz (born December 15, 1716 in Dalwitz ; † February 7, 1790 ibid) also Sabine Countess von Bassewitz was a German writer .

Life

She came from the old Mecklenburg family Bassewitz and was the daughter of the Privy Councilor Joachim Otto von Bassewitz (1686-1733) and Catharina Ilsabe von Bassewitz (1693-1717). On July 15, 1733, she married her cousin, Count Bernhard Matthias von Bassewitz (1706–1783), the Grand Duke of Holstein Chamberlain. The marriage remained childless. After the husband's death on December 29, 1783, the Dalwitz estate became their property. Here she spent her old age, had contact with the also widowed Duchess Louise Friederike von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1721–1791) and died in 1790 on the Dalwitz estate.

Act

Contemporaries regarded her as a "woman of great and rare talents" and was already interested in the works of the philosophers Christian Wolff and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . In 1772 von Bassewitz wrote the foreword to Freye's reflections on the Psalms of David by Friderike Elisabeth von Grabow . She also wrote poems, including an ode to her surviving breast cancer , which she is said to have conquered almost exclusively with the help of couch grass roots . In another ode, von Bassewitz, who was considered a good piano player herself, dealt with music. Bassewitz also ascribes the anonymous writing The most effective tool for the exhausted Mecklenburg from 1768.

Von Bassewitz was in correspondence with numerous scholars of her time, such as Johann Joachim Spalding and Voltaire , with whom she wrote about his Histoire de Charles XII , among other things . Her letters were admired for the “purity and elegance of style, sharpness, acquaintance with our literature, and the heart of this rare woman [von Bassewitz]”.

Works

Digitized , Rostock University Library
  • (anonymous) The most effective remedy for the enfeebled Mecklenburg: advised to the present, respectable convocation meeting, by a well-meaning patriot. 1768
  • Correspondence with Voltaire and Spalding, among others
  • Poems and odes

literature

  • Bassewitz, Sabine Elisabeth Oelgard from . 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. 16.
  • Friedrich Schlichtegroll: Necrology for the year 1790 . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1791, pp. 141–146.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Reichs- und Staats-Handbuch for the year 1802. First part . Barrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1802, p. 495.
  2. ^ Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of the imperial count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family of the Wendish line. [O. O.], 1859, pp. 46-47.
  3. ↑ Schlichtegroll, p. 141.
  4. ↑ a b Schlichtegroll, p. 142.
  5. ↑ Schlichtegroll, p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Bassewitz, Sabina Elisabeth Oelgard from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassewitz, Sabina Elisabeth Oelgard Countess von (full name); Bassewitz, Sabine Countess of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalwitz
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1790
Place of death Dalwitz