Sibylle Ursula of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

Sibylle Ursula of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

Sibylle Ursula von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (born February 4, 1629 in Hitzacker ; died December 12, 1671 at Schloss Glücksburg ) was the daughter of Duke August the Younger and by marriage from 1663 Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg . She stood out through her literary work.

Life

She was the third child of August the Younger from Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and his second wife Dorothea von Anhalt-Zerbst . Soon after her mother died, her father was third married to Sophie Elisabeth von Mecklenburg . The educated princely couple provided the daughter and her siblings with a cultivated education in music, Latin, French and literature, thanks in part to the private teachers Justus Georg Schottelius and Sigmund von Birken . Mainly family members performed at the Wolfenbütteler Hoftheater and all of the prince's children were active in literary early on, especially the younger ones: in addition to Sibylle, their sister Clara Augusta, brother Anton Ulrich , and half-siblings Ferdinand Albrecht I and Maria Elisabeth . Sibylle Ursula and her favorite brother Anton Ulrich were named as the most talented of the children. In a school exercise book of the young Sibylle Ursula there is a literary study on the style of the courtly phrases of her surroundings as well as broken love stories. Unlike her brothers, Sibylle's literary advancement was eventually interrupted: she received no public education or a court master. Nevertheless, there was an exchange of letters lasting several years (the years 1656 to 1660 have survived) with Madeleine de Scudéry , which had a lasting impact on her. Correspondence with Johann Valentin Andreae is also known in Latin, written by her and contained, for example, in the Seleniana Augustalia published in Ulm in 1649 .

She delayed her own marriage, planned to die unmarried and wrote plays, poems, prose plays and translated, for example around 1649 the introduction to the true wisdom of Juan Luis Vives . One of the pseudonyms she used was The Liberator . In her early work piety, courtly ethos and morals played an important role. Later she turned even more to religious meditations ( Geistliches Kleeblatt , 1655; two-volume Seuffzer , 1647–1668), in which the change in her inner spiritual world was also reflected. She translated the Cassandre in 1656 and the Cléopatre of La Calprenède in 1659 . Her own main literary work is the original version of Aramena , probably inspired by Calprenèdes Pharamond . She broke off the complex manuscript in the style of the shepherd's poetry in the second part of the second book, probably around 1663. It was continued by her brother Anton Ulrich and finally published under the editorship of Sigmund von Birken as a five-part version The Serene Syrian Aramena .

She finally married in 1663 at the age of 34. The creation of an own courtly sphere of activity was assumed as a possible motive. She gave birth to her husband, Duke Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born June 19, 1627, † November 17, 1698) four children, none of whom survived. In 1664 she became seriously ill and subsequently became depressed. Presumably it was syphilis transmitted by her husband . The last entry in her diary was dated 1668; the last birth led to her death in 1671. She was buried together with the stillborn daughter on February 6, 1672 in the princely hereditary funeral.

literature

Jill Bepler: Sibylle Ursula, Duchess of Holstein-Glücksburg, b. Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (Celle / Dan). In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 651 .
Princely Schleßwig-Holstein-Glücksburgische Gedächtniß-Seule: The Weiland ... women Sibyllen Ursulen, Gebohrnen Hertduchesses of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, married Hertduchess of Schleßwig, Hollstein ... As a last honor ... erected. Rebenlein, Hamburg 1672, OCLC 635106632 .

Works

with J. Sandrat, Nicolaus Schurtz: Him [m] lisches Kleeblat or Considerations of the Most Holy Three Unity Godhead. Left by a now most soulful, high princely person. Nuremberg 1674, OCLC 836663968 .

Web links

Publications by and about Sibylle Ursula von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Ute Brandes: Study room, poet club, court society. Creativity and the cultural framework of female storytelling in the baroque era. In: Gisela Brinker-Gabler (Ed.), German literature by women. Volume 1, Darmstadt / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33118-1 , pp. 240–245.
↑ Jill Bepler: Sibylle Ursula, Duchess of Holstein-Glücksburg, b. Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (Celle / Dan). In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 651 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sibylle Ursula of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sibylla Ursula von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel; Sibylla Ursula of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Princess and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hitzacker , Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 1671
Place of death	Glücksburg Castle , Duchy of Schleswig

[Brandes-1] A ^b ^c Ute Brandes: Study room, poet club, court society. Creativity and the cultural framework of female storytelling in the baroque era. In: Gisela Brinker-Gabler (Ed.), German literature by women. Volume 1, Darmstadt / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33118-1 , pp. 240–245.

[2] Jill Bepler: Sibylle Ursula, Duchess of Holstein-Glücksburg, b. Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (Celle / Dan). In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 651 .