Sylvie von Ziegesar

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Sylvie Koethe ( Sylvie von Ziegesar ) (born June 21, 1785 at Gut Drackendorf near Jena; † February 13, 1858 in Großneuhausen near Sömmerda ) was a friend of the painter Louise Seidler and the subject of the poem To Sylvie von Ziegesar by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

Sylvie von Ziegesar
pastel painting by Louise Seidler

Life

Sylvie von Ziegesar came in 1785 as the daughter of the Gotha privy councilor August Friedrich Carl and Magdalene Auguste von Ziegesar born. von Wangenheim on the Drackendorf estate near Jena. Her father held numerous offices in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (most recently in Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ), including that of Chancellor. He knew Goethe as a friend of the family.

In Jena, Sylvie von Ziegesar was friends with Louise Seidler and Pauline Gotter , who later became the wife of Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling from Jena . Sylvie Ziegesar had full access to the intellectual high-ranking circles of Jena, the creative minds at that time such as Friedrich Schiller , Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt , the brothers Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel , Friedrich Tieck , Clemens Brentano , Johann Heinrich Voss , Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus , Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer , Zacharias Werner and others. As early as 1802, Sylvie von Ziegesar met the then 53-year-old Goethe in her father's house.

Memorial plaques on the church in Drackendorf

In the early summer of 1808, Goethe devoted himself to the beautiful Sylvie von Ziegesar and her friend Pauline Gotter during a spa stay in Karlsbad . In the great poem To Sylvie von Ziegesar , he greeted her as a daughter, a friend. Sweetheart . Other poems and numerous letters testify to the cordial relationship between the two, which continued even after their marriage in 1814 to the professor and garrison preacher and later Allstadt superintendent Friedrich August Koethe (1781–1850), who was the founder of the collection of contemporary biographies and characteristics . Goethe even visited the young couple in Jena and sponsored their first child. Features of Sylvie von Ziegesar have entered the figure of Ottilie in the elective affinities .

On February 13, 1858, Sylvie Koethe (nee von Ziegesar) died in Großneuhausen near Sömmerda , where her nephew Ottobald von Werthern owned a castle. Her grave can still be visited in Großneuhausen. A son Carl (October 10, 1816 - February 10, 1853) and a daughter Selma (April 22, 1815 - June 12, 1866) are buried with her in the tomb. Not far from there is also the grave of her sister - Cäcilie von Werthern .

The author Cecily von Ziegesar is a descendant of Sylvie.

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SURNAME Goat's son, Sylvie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koethe, Sylvie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Confidante of Goethe
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1858
Place of death Großneuhausen near Buttstädt