Thekla from Baudissin

Thekla Ernestine Josephine Sigismunda Elisabeth von Baudissin ( Knooper Line ) (* December 25, 1812 - September 13, 1885 ) was a German writer .

Her parents, Count Christian Karl von Baudissin (1790–1868) and Anna Margarete Henriette Kunniger (1788–1864) came from Saxony and had married in Dresden in 1810 . Thekla von Baudissin was born in 1812 as the second of 13 siblings. In 1816 the family moved to Greifswald .

Von Baudissin wrote under the pseudonym Aunt Ernestine . She published, among other things, in Isabella Braun's youth papers for Christian entertainment and instruction and in Thekla von Gumpert's daughters album .

Her siblings Wolf (1812–1887), Ulrich (1816–1893), Asta and Adelbert were active as authors like them. The writer Caroline Adelheid Cornelia von Baudissin was her grandmother.

Works

• 1846: English language teaching (2nd edition 1865)
• 1860: Life story of the canary Bibi (story)
• 1861: Colorful A - B - C . From Aunt Ernestine <[d. i.] Countess Thekla von Baudissin>. With Illustr. by Franz Graf von Pocci. Vienna, Pichler 1861 (1860?). 30 p. (New edition, microfiche. Munich, Sauer 1994. Library of German literature, Fiche 9509. [1] )

literature

• Baudissin, Thekla of . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the History of German Literature 9), p. 16.
• Baudissin, Countess Thekla v. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 42 ( digitized version ).