Sibylle Margarethe von Brieg

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Sibylle Margarethe von Brieg

Sibylle Margarethe , born Duchess in Silesia, to Liegnitz and Brieg , married Countess von Dönhoff (born  June 20, 1620 , † June 26, 1657 in Danzig ) was Princess von Brieg from the Liegnitz branch of the Silesian Piasts and an important person in history of German baroque literature .

She was the daughter of Duke Johann Christian in Brieger and his wife Dorothea Sibylle von Brandenburg and thus a granddaughter of Elector Johann Georg von Brandenburg , Duke of Prussia .

Sibylle married in 1637 the imperial count Gerhard Dönhoff (1590-1648), Polish castellan of Danzig and voivode of Wenden ( Wenden Voivodeship ) and of Pomerania ( Pomeranian Voivodeship in Royal Prussia ). He was an important patron of the poet Martin Opitz , who was in the service of the Duke of Liegnitz from 1633-36, was also active in Gdansk for a while and died there.

Opitz dedicated his Spiritual Poemata to Countess Sibylle Margarethe Dönhoff. She is considered the role model of the eponymous heroine of the shepherd novel Jüngst = erbawte Schäfferey / Or Chaste Love = Description / Of the amorous Nimfen AMOENA, and the praised shepherd AMANDUS ... (Leipzig 1637)

Jeremias Falck created a portrait of her.

literature

  • Klaus Garber: Martin Opitz 'sheep farm from the nymph Hercinie. Origin of the prose box and the shepherd novel in Germany. In: Barbara Becker-Cantarino (ed.): Martin Opitz: Studies on work and person. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1982 (Daphnis 11/1982), pp. 547-603.
  • Ulrich Seelbach: Logau, Gruttschreiber, Gregersdorf. About the author of the “Youngster Baffle”. In: Daphnis 18 (1989) 1, pp. 113-124.

Individual evidence

  1. So the version of its title in the dedication by Martin Opitz : Geistliche Poemata 1689