Sophie Reimarus
Christina Sophia Louise Reimarus (born April 14, 1742 in Pinneberg ; † September 30, 1817 in Hamburg ) was a German pioneer of the Enlightenment .
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Sophie Reimarus was the daughter of the civil servant Martin Hennings, who was in service with the Danish State . Her younger brother was the politician and publicist August Adolph von Hennings . The family moved to Hamburg in 1770, where Sophie Reimarus married the Hamburg doctor Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus , who had vaccinated them against smallpox and who had a daughter Johanna Margaretha from her first marriage . With the marriage, Sophie Reimarus' circle of friends and acquaintances expanded to include literarily, philosophically and politically extremely committed people. This included her father-in-law Hermann Samuel Reimarus and his daughter Elise, who was close friends with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn .
Sophie Reimarus hosted a “the table” which became the target of many visitors and which developed into one of the focal points of the Enlightenment in the Hanseatic city . Her regular guests included Caspar Voght , Johann Georg Büsch , Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Karl Leonhard Reinhold and Karl August Böttiger . She exchanged letters with her brother August Hennings and Adolph Knigge . Her brother collected the letters from 1779 to 1802 and commented on them in places. The writings show Reimarus as a multi-faceted and educated woman who accompanied current events independently and represented the basic principles and values of the Enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions .
Reimarus' daughter Christine married Karl Friedrich Reinhard in 1796 , who was foreign minister for a short time in 1799.
At the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in a new pile of tombstones created in 2018 in the area of the Sieveking family grave complex (grid square S 25/26), there is a fragment of the stele for Sophie Reimarus next to that of her husband (original location St. Petri-Kirchhof).
On the area of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery , professors at the Academicum grammar school are reminded of the Reimarus couple on the stone slab of the collective grave .
literature
- Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , pp. 573-574.
- Ariane Knuth: Reimarus, Sophie . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 246-247 .
Web links
- Biography Christina Sophia Reimarus at Frauenbiografien, hamburg.de
- Biography Sophie Reimarus, b. Hennings with picture at garten-der-frauen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs. 2 volumes and an overview map 1: 4000. Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , p. 23, cat. 63 with historical picture
- ^ Eberhard Kellers: Burial grove and crypt: the tombs of the upper class on the old burial grounds in Hamburg. Issue No. 17 of workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Hamburg. Verlag Christians, 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1294-3 , p. 127, column Friedrich Sieveking
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| SURNAME | Reimarus, Sophie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reimarus, Christina Sophia Louise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German thought leader of the Enlightenment |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1742 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pinneberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1817 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |