Sally von Kügelgen (diary writer)

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Sally von Kügelgen (* 1835 ? † December 28, 1868 July / January 9,  1869 greg. ) Was a Baltic German diary author.

life and work

The educator Sally von Kügelgen was best known for her diary entries. They exemplarily reflect the life of women in the upper society of the Baltic province in the middle of the 19th century.

The diary entries did not appear in print until half a century later under the title Stilles Tagebuch eines Baltic Fräuleins 1855/1856 . In 1936, her granddaughter, the writer Oda Schaefer (1900–1988), who also contributed the foreword, was the publisher of the volume in Propylaeen Verlag . The edition included six watercolors that Sally von Kügelgen had painted.

The Baltic farm daughter Sally von Kügelgen saw "the future of women and old maids alike as 'dreary and arid' if they were not allowed to shape their own lives."

“Typical of the forced boredom of younger women was Sally von Kügelgen, who as a girl and teenager hated simply waiting patiently for the future and a prospective husband. She criticized the unproductive alternative of religion and manual labor, which only remained to her as a house daughter, in the meaningless' unwinding of time 'in the fifties on her parents' estate in the Baltic States. "

Private life

Sally von Kügelgen was married to the Baltic German pastor Hugo Emil Kraus (1826–1908), who came from Courland . Her son is the journalist and writer Eberhard Kraus (1857–1918), her granddaughter the writer Oda Schaefer (1900–1988).

She was the (great) niece of the painters Karl von Kügelgen (1772–1832), Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772–1820) and Wilhelm von Kügelgen (1802–1867).

literature

  • Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of German-Language Literature in the Baltic States and St. Petersburg from the Middle Ages to the Present; Volume 2: H-M . DeGruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 789.

Web links

  • Entry at EEVA ( Digital Text Collection of Older Literature Estonia )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bärbel Kuhn: marital status single. Celibate women and men in the bourgeoisie (1850-1914. (L'homme. Schriften; Vol. 5). Böhlau, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-412-12999-2 , p. 62 (also dissertation, Saarbrücken University 1999).
  2. ↑ Martina Kessel : "Ambition was bothering me again today ..." Patience and impatience in the 19th century . In: Manfred Hettling, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (eds.): The bourgeois sky of values. Interior views of the 19th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-01385-X , p. 136.
  3. ↑ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de
personal data
SURNAME Kügelgen, Sally von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German diary writer
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1835
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1869