Sophie von Schwerin

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Countess Sophie Schwerin at the age of 70 (painting by Gustav Richter )

Sophie von Schwerin , b. von Dönhoff (born July 16, 1785 in Berlin ; † January 27, 1863 there ) was a Prussian noblewoman and writer.

Life

Sophie von Schwerin was the youngest daughter of Count Bogislaw von Dönhoff († January 10, 1809) and Countess Sophie von Schwerin († 1825). She was a great-granddaughter by Fontane became known wife of Wreech . For women of that time, she enjoyed an unusually good education in the German language, poetry and science.

In 1805 she married her uncle Wilhelm Werner Otto von Schwerin , her mother's younger brother, and moved with him to Berlin. The marriage remained childless.

Ten years after the wedding, her husband died on July 18, 1815 in the Battle of Belle-Alliance and was buried near the battlefield at Lasne-Chapelle-St-Lambert . The widow contacted the pastor of Lasne, asked him to look after her husband's grave and made an annual donation to the poor in the village, the payment of which she guaranteed in her will even after her own death. She had a bronze memorial with war trophies made. Since it could not be placed at the grave, it found its place in the village church of Kreckow .

Sophie von Schwerin later ran a salon in Palais Dönhoff at Wilhelmstrasse 63 in Berlin , where u. a. the landscape painter Samuel Rösel, the portrait painter Adolf Henning and the writer Bernhard von Lepel , the scholar Adolf Schottmüller, the artists Wilhelm Wach , Friedrich Drake and August Hopfgarten as well as Henriette Paalzow frequented. Even Wilhelm Grimm and Theodor Fontane often listen to her guests.

During his wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg , Fontane based his essay on "Tamsel" on the memoirs of Countess Schwerin (1863 still unprinted).

Sophie Countess Schwerin was buried in the Berlin Officers Garrison Cemetery.

Works

(All anonymous)

  • Vaucourt and Louise . Novel in Letters 1808/09.
  • Udo von Felseneck or fate and will . (unpublished)
  • Damask .
  • Tamori . Two volume novel.
  • Pregolla . Tragedy. (unpublished)
  • Ferdinand von Schill .
  • Paths to Inner Peace . 2nd ed. 1863.

literature

  • Amalie von Romberg: Sophie Schwerin. A picture of life . New ed. Eberhard Koenig. Leipzig 1911.
  • Kerrin Countess von Schwerin: Wilhelmstrasse 63: fateful years of a Prussian family. Berlin: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg 2008 ISBN 9783866506329

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also Tamsel Castle .
  2. ^ See Fontane's letter to Mathilde von Rohr of April 15, 1862.
personal data
SURNAME Schwerin, Sophie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dönhoff, Sophie von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian noblewoman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1863
Place of death Berlin