Sophie Eleonore Walther
Sophie Eleonore Walther (married Achenwall ; born January 6, 1723 in Gießen ; † May 23, 1754 in Göttingen ) was a German writer .
Life
Sophie Eleonore Walther was born in Giessen as the daughter of the high school teacher Heinrich Andreas Walther . The father, who later worked as a teacher in Worms and then as a pastor in Frankfurt am Main and also appeared as a writer with the philosophical first reasons of wisdom and virtue , taught his daughter himself. She received an education for girls was unusual at the time: In addition to French and English, she also learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Sophie Eleonore Walther was encouraged to write herself through her brother Friedrich Andreas Walther (1727–1769), who had published his work rehearsals for poetical exercises in 1746 .
She presented her first work, Thoughts in a bound speech on the religious scoffers and God-deniers in 1749 at the German Society in Göttingen, which she made an honorary member in 1749. At the time, she was the sixth woman to receive this honor.
When, after her first writing, her poems appeared in print in 1750 , the Helmstedt Society and the Jena Society also made her an honorary member. At that time Sophie Eleonore Walther, who was also called "Waltherin" or "Olorena" by contemporaries, was in friendly contact with women who wrote of her time, such as Susanne von Klettenberg .
In a letter to the imperially crowned poet Traugott Christiane Dorothee Löber , she confidently formulated the woman's claim to scholarship :
- Yes, also the weakest part, the female sex
- Shines with erudition
- Otherwise it never had to research
- When the envy of men tied his eyes,
- And whether you keep it within narrow limits;
- So it penetrates anyway!
In 1751 she met the Göttingen economist Gottfried Achenwall in Frankfurt am Main , who had read her poems. In 1752 both married in Göttingen. Sophie Eleonore Walther died in childbed as early as 1754 . Poets like Friedrich Karl von Moser wrote poems and speeches about her death.
Works
- Thoughts in bound speech on the religious scoffers and God-deniers (1749)
- Poems. Schmid, Göttingen 1750. ( digitized version )
- The ducal German society of Helmstädt replied to the binding letter from the Hochedelgebohrnen Jungfer [Traugott Christiane Dorothee Löber] from Altenburg (letter, 1750)
- Masterpieces of moral treatises by English and German moral teachers (freely translated arrangements, 1753)
literature
- Joh. Phil. Murray: Speak which in the name of the Kgl. German society in memory of its transfigured member of the Frau Professor Sophien Eleonoren Achenwall drilled Walther was held in the same meeting room ... On the twelfth day of Junius, in 1754 . o. V., Göttingen 1754.
- Gustav Roethe: Waltherin, Sophie Eleonore . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 124 f.
- Elisabeth Friedrichs: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, p. 1.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Cherubim, Ariane Walsdorf: Language criticism as enlightenment. The German Society in Göttingen in the 18th century . 2nd Edition. Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen 2005, p. 148. (= Göttinger Bibliotheksschriften 27)
- ↑ Quoted from ADB, p. 125.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walther, Sophie Eleonore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Achenwall, Sophie Eleonore; Waltherin; Olorena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1723 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1754 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |