Sophie Black

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Sophie Schwarz after an engraving by Daniel Chodowiecki , 1791.

Agnes Sophie Schwarz ( born Becker ; born June 17, 1754 in Neu-Autz near Mitau in Courland (now Latvia ); † October 26, 1789 in Halberstadt ) was a German-Baltic writer and close friend of the writer Elisa von der Recke .

Life

Sophie Schwarz was born in 1754 as the daughter of Pastor Ulrich Gottlieb Becker and Sophie Veronika, b. Luther was born in Neu-Autz in what is now Latvia. Her older brother Bernhard later also became a pastor and, like his sister, worked as a poet. Sophie Schwarz received a careful upbringing and learned, among other things, French, English and the piano. She made friends with the sisters Dorothea and especially Elisa von der Recke, who lived on the neighboring estate of Alt-Autz . Through her father she also got to know the spiritual poet Christoph Friedrich Neander .

Elisa von der Recke 1797; Painting by Anton Graff .

Together with her friend Elisa von der Recke and Julie Reichardt of the same age, she went on a trip to Germany in 1784, which was officially planned as a cure in Karlsbad , but which became a study trip through Germany. In Gotha they met Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter in 1784 , and Sophie and Elisa spent the winter of 1784/1785 in the Harz Mountains . In 1785 they visited Bayreuth, among others . Her correspondence with Moses Mendelssohn , published in 1790, dates from the same year . Sophie Schwarz met Elise Reimarus , Johann Georg Witthauer and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock in Hamburg in autumn 1785 . At the beginning of 1786 Sophie Schwarz returned to Courland, where her mother and father died in April and May of the same year. Sophie Schwarz processed the loss in her poem Beym Grabeshügel my parents - 1786 in May .

On her trip through Germany, Sophie Schwarz met trainee lawyer Johann Ludwig Georg Schwarz (1759-1830) in Halberstadt, who courted her and whom she married on April 18, 1787 in the Elisa von der Reckes house after the death of her parents. She went to Halberstadt with her husband, from where she exchanged lively letters with Elisa von der Recke and Dorothea. She socialized with Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim and his friends such as Christoph August Tiedge , who immortalized Sophie Schwarz in his poem Auf Gleim's beautiful tree , which was written on April 2, 1791 and published in 1797. Even Gottfried August Bürger wrote a poem on Sophie Black, the humorous Discontinued love letter to Sophie, according to prescribed rhymes .

Sophie Schwarz died in 1789 at the age of only 35 shortly after the birth of her first child, a son. Shortly after her death in 1790, her husband published a compilation of his wife's poems, which appeared as Elisen's and Sophien's poems and which was designed as a memory book of Sophie Schwarz and her friendship with Elisa von der Recke. In addition to poems by both authors, there are also contributions by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk and Christoph August Tiedge.

Letters from a curlander

The work Letters of a Curlander was published shortly after Sophie Schwarz's death in Berlin in 1791 and was edited by her husband Johann Ludwig Georg Schwarz. On the title page of the two-volume work there is a portrait engraved by Daniel Chodowiecki, which contemporaries, however, assessed as a "little similar profile".

The work, conceived as a reader in letters, comprises an adaptation of the original diary of Sophie Schwarz, which she kept in 1784 and 1785 on the trip with Elisa von der Recke. Descriptions of areas that have just been traveled alternate with messages about people Sophie Schwarz met on her trip, and are supplemented by private messages. Sophie Schwarz made numerous deletions from the original diary and wrote additional episodes, so that the authentic character of the diary was lost. The travel diary on which the letters of a curland woman are based was first published in 1884 under the title 100 Years Ago .

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried August Bürger: Abandoned declaration of love to Sophie, according to prescribed end rhymes . In: Karl v. Reinhard (Hrsg.): GA Bürgers Complete Works , second volume. Christiani, Berlin 1823, p. 51.
  2. ↑ Description of the earth . In: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . Number 350, December 1791, column 685.
personal data
SURNAME Black, Sophie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Agnes Sophie (maiden name); Black, Agnes Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Neu-Autz near Mitau , Courland
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1789
Place of death Halberstadt