Susanne von Klettenberg

Susanne Katharina von Klettenberg (born December 19, 1723 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 13, 1774 there ) was a German canon and religious writer.

Life

Susanne von Klettenberg was born as the daughter of the doctor and councilor Remigius Seiffart von Klettenberg. Since 1751, Friedrich Karl von Moser made her acquainted with the main ideas of Zinzendorf and his temporary follower Friedrich Christoph Steinhofer (1706–1761) and, despite a critical attitude, turned to the Moravian Brethren .

She was related by marriage to Goethe's mother, Catharina Elisabeth Goethe , and friends. Having become ill herself, she helped the young Goethe in 1768/69 during his convalescence in Frankfurt after his illness in July 1768 in Leipzig. Goethe was so impressed by her tolerance and differentiated religiosity that he processed her writings and statements in a central place in his work Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (“Confessions of a Beautiful Soul”). With her he also studied works of alchemy , with which Susanne von Klettenberg dealt intensively (she was a niece of the alchemist impostor Johann Hektor von Klettenberg ). Goethe's portrayal also reflects the story of her engagement from 1743 to 1747 to the more secular Johann Daniel von Olenschlager (1711–1778).

The deeply religious and at the same time vitally educated woman was a canon in the St. Katharinen- or Weißfrauenkloster .

Works (selection)

The Christian and Friendship , 1754
New songs by Fräulein von Klettenberg , 1756
The beautiful soul. Confessions, writings and letters of Susanne Katharina von Klettenberg , ed. by Heinrich Funck , 1911

literature

Detlev Lüders: Klettenberg, Susanna Katharina von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 54 ( digitized version ).
Markus Britsch: Susanne von Klettenberg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 48-51. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's years of apprenticeship . Edited by Wilhelm Voßkamp and Waltraud Wiethölter with the assistance of Christoph Brecht (with comments and biographical information on Susanne von Klettenberg). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1998.
Jette Anders: 33 alchemists. The hidden side of an ancient science. Past Publishing, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86408-204-7 .

Web links

Wikisource: Susanne von Klettenberg - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

↑ The influence of her Frankfurt pastor Johann Philipp Fresenius , who stood on Bengel's side in the dispute between the sober piety style of the Württemberg pietist Johann Albrecht Bengel and the occasionally enthusiastic Count Zinzendorf, had an impact. Steinhofer's literature also had a differentiating effect. The Ebersdorf pastor, who was associated with Zinzendorf for many years and Friedrich Karl von Moser, who lived in Ebersdorf in the Vogtland from 1739 to the end of May 1747, and then temporarily Herrnhut co-bishop Steinhofer, had turned to villains since 1748. See Reinhard Breymayer: Friedrich Christoph Steinhofer. A pietistic theologian between Oetinger, Zinzendorf and Goethe [...]. Heck, Dußlingen 2012, pp. 24–31.
^ Susanne Katharina von Klettenberg's second aunt Katharina Elisabeth Textor, widowed von Barckhaus, b. von Klettenberg (1706–1756), had been an aunt by marriage of Goethe's mother since 1737 through her marriage to Johann Nicolaus Textor (1703–1765). See Reinhard Breymayer : Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger's nephew Eberhard Christoph v. Oetinger [...]. 2nd, improved edition, Heck, Tübingen 2010, p. 95.
↑ Karin Figala Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , in: Claus Priesner, Karin Figala: Alchemie. Lexicon of a Hermetic Science . Beck, Munich 1998, p. 155.
↑ Jette Anders: 33 Alchemists . Past Publishing, Berlin 2016, pp. 137ff.
↑ On him, cf. Reinhard Breymayer: Prelate Oetingers Neffe , pp. 20, 29, 66, 85–87, 95–97, 101, 109.

personal data
SURNAME	Klettenberg, Susanne von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seiffart von Klettenberg, Susanna Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canon lady and religious writer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	December 13, 1774
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] The influence of her Frankfurt pastor Johann Philipp Fresenius , who stood on Bengel's side in the dispute between the sober piety style of the Württemberg pietist Johann Albrecht Bengel and the occasionally enthusiastic Count Zinzendorf, had an impact. Steinhofer's literature also had a differentiating effect. The Ebersdorf pastor, who was associated with Zinzendorf for many years and Friedrich Karl von Moser, who lived in Ebersdorf in the Vogtland from 1739 to the end of May 1747, and then temporarily Herrnhut co-bishop Steinhofer, had turned to villains since 1748. See Reinhard Breymayer: Friedrich Christoph Steinhofer. A pietistic theologian between Oetinger, Zinzendorf and Goethe [...]. Heck, Dußlingen 2012, pp. 24–31.

[2] Susanne Katharina von Klettenberg's second aunt Katharina Elisabeth Textor, widowed von Barckhaus, b. von Klettenberg (1706–1756), had been an aunt by marriage of Goethe's mother since 1737 through her marriage to Johann Nicolaus Textor (1703–1765). See Reinhard Breymayer : Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger's nephew Eberhard Christoph v. Oetinger [...]. 2nd, improved edition, Heck, Tübingen 2010, p. 95.

[3] Karin Figala Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , in: Claus Priesner, Karin Figala: Alchemie. Lexicon of a Hermetic Science . Beck, Munich 1998, p. 155.

[4] Jette Anders: 33 Alchemists . Past Publishing, Berlin 2016, pp. 137ff.

[5] On him, cf. Reinhard Breymayer: Prelate Oetingers Neffe , pp. 20, 29, 66, 85–87, 95–97, 101, 109.