Therese Pulszky

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Therese Pulszky , also Therese Pulsky or Terézia Walder Pulszky , (born January 7, 1819 in Berlin , † September 2, 1866 in Pest ) was an Austro-Hungarian writer.

Life

Therese Walter was the daughter of Berlin-born Johann August Walter (before 1800–1861) and Henriette Walter (1798–1882), born in 1818, who had been married to him . Mayer, daughter of Julius (Juda David) and Nanette Mayer, b. Eskeles from Frankfurt am Main . In Berlin, Therese's father was involved in the A. Walter, Beer & Co. company as a “banker and merchant” and only moved to Vienna in the 1820s.

Therese grew up with her cousin Marie (1818–1863), who married Count Ludwig von Breda in 1844 and became the grandmother of the artist Mara Hoffmann . Marie Walter was the daughter of Johann August Walter's brother, Ludwig Walter († 1850), whose wife Theresia, b. von One († 1818), who died giving birth to the girl. Her stepmother Henriette Walter ran a musical and literary salon in which many well-known Austrian poets and musicians, as well as Franz Liszt and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense , frequented. Both girls were musically gifted; Therese appeared as a singer at salon evenings, Marie was valued as a painter.

In 1845 Therese married the important Hungarian politician and antiquarian Franz Pulszky , actually Ferenc Aurel Pulszky de Cselfalva et Lubócz (1814–1897) and moved with him to Hungary . In 1848 Ferenc Pulszky was appointed Undersecretary of State in the Foreign Ministry of Paul Anton III in the Batthyány National Government . (actually Pál Antal) Esterházy de Galántha appointed. After the end of the Austro-Hungarian War in 1848/49, Therese was forced to go into exile in London with her husband. The couple's assets were confiscated, and Therese had to provide her family with literary work. In her memoirs and travel reports, however, she avoided any reference to her parents who had remained in Vienna.

Malwida von Meysenbug described her in her memoirs as one of the most important women on the London emigrant scene alongside Johanna Kinkel . Her house in London became the focus of the Hungarian emigrants. She and her husband accompanied Lajos Kossuth - who had also been in exile in London since 1849 - on his lecture tour through the United States. She then wrote the travelogue White, Red, Black (1852) together with her husband . She herself published From the diary of a Hungarian lady (1850) and sagas and stories from Hungary (1851).

Ferenc Pulszky sought a Hungarian-Italian alliance against Austria and moved to Italy with his wife during the Risorgimento era . After Garibaldi's defeat at Aspromonte (1862), he retired entirely to Florence, where the widowed mother Theresa also spent her old age. In the 1860s, Franz and Therese Pulszky ran one of the most glamorous salons in the Arno city in the Villa Petrovich, and its guests included Francesco dall'Ongaro, Ludmilla Assing and Michael Bakunin . In 1866, accompanied by her daughter, she went to Hungary to take back her confiscation of property and fell ill with cholera in Buda . When her husband Ferenc received permission from the Austrian government to travel to Buda in September 1866, he found both his wife and daughter dead on arrival.

Publications (selection)

  • From the life of a Hungarian lady. Grunow, Leipzig 1850
    • English edition: Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady. London 1850
  • Legends and stories from Hungary. Duncker, Berlin 1851
  • White, Red, Black - Sketches of American Society in the United States. Refield, New York 1853 ff.
    • German speaking Edition: white, red, black. Sketches from American society in the United States. 5 volumes, Kassel 1853

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://archive.org/details/sagenunderzhlun00pulsgoog
  2. ↑ See delivery notices. In: Berlinische Zeitung von Staats- und schehrten Dinge (Spenersche) No. 5, January 12, 1819 (first supplement) ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Cf. Friedrich Karl von Strombeck : representations from a trip from Lower Saxony to Vienna in the summer of 1838. Braunschweig: Vieweg 1839 (representations from my life and from my time, vol. 7), p. 253 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ General names and housing advertisements from state officials, scholars, artists, merchants, manufacturers, traders and traders, particulars, rentiers, etc., etc. in the king. Prussia. Capital and residence city of Berlin. For the years 1818 and 1819. Arranged in alphabetical order and published. by CFW Wegener. Berlin: Bookstore Wegener 1818, p. 69 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Cf. Nikolaus Gatter: "... as it were the other half of the work". What is missing in the Varnhagen collection - a workshop report. In: Internationales Jahrbuch der Bettina-von-Arnim-Gesellschaft 28/29 (2016/2017), p. 156 ff.
  6. ↑ Cf. In memory of Therese Pulszky [sig. M.]. In: New stranger sheet. Morning edition vol. 2 (1866), nos. 272, October 4; 273, October 5; 274, October 6; 276, October 8; 277, October 9; 278, 10/10; 282 (II. Supplement), October 14; 284, 16.10 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Jennifer Speake: Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. 2014, p. 370.
  8. ^ Anatole Wacquant: The Hungarian Danube Army 1848/49 . 2013, p. 288.
  9. ↑ See Died. In: The housewife. Organ for all women's interests Vol. 6, No. 6, February 28, 1882, p. 3 ( digitized version ).
  10. ^ Roberto Simanowski, Horst Turk, Thomas Schmidt: Europe - a salon? Contributions to the internationality of the literary salon. 1999, p. 135.
personal data
SURNAME Pulszky, Therese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulsky, Therese; Walder Pulszky, Terézia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1866
Place of death pest