Ulrike Sophie zu Mecklenburg

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Duchess Ulrike Sophie, portrait by Georg David Matthieu (1765)
Copy by Gaston Lenthe after a portrait by Georg David Matthieu

Ulrike Sophie, Duchess of Mecklenburg [-Schwerin] (* July 1, 1723 in Grabow , † September 17, 1813 in Rostock ) was a princess from the House of Mecklenburg .

Live and act

After her brother Friedrich, Ulrike Sophie was the second child and eldest daughter of Duke Christian Ludwig and his wife Gustave Karoline. She remained unmarried.

At the age of five she was appointed regent of the Rühn monastery in 1728 . In 1750 she went on a trip to Aachen and Paris with her brother and his wife. In 1756, in return for compensation, she renounced the reign of the monastery, which then became ducal property. She devoted herself in a special way to promoting the arts. She procured a number of lucrative commissions for the court painter Georg David Matthieu and she was considered a passionate lover of dramatic art . For performances by the Schönemannschen Hofschauspielgesellschaft under the direction of Johann Friedrich Schönemann , she created her own translation of the ungrateful ( L'Ingrat ) by Philippe Néricault Destouches . Johann Jakob Dusch dedicated his civil tragedy Der Bankerot to her in 1763 ; Johann Wilhelm Hertel , whom she also hired as private secretary in 1770, composed a birthday cantata for her in 1754.

Ulrike Sophie was buried as the last member of the ducal house in the princely crypt of the shelf church St. Nikolai in Schwerin.

Works

  • The ungrateful: a comedy in 5 acts, adapted from Destouches frey. Leipzig: Schönfeld 1784

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century. Volume 2: M-Z. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1825, pp. 5-6

Web links

Commons : Ulrike Sophie zu Mecklenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Karl Kunzen : As the transitory Prince and Lord, Herr Friedrich Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg ... together with his High Wife ... Louise Friederica ... and ... Ulrica Sophia, née Duchess of Mecklenburg ... of hers Trip to Achen and Paris d. Oct 8 1750 ... lines designed in Schwerin ... Schwerin: Bärensprung, 1750
  2. ↑ Schindel (lit.), p. 5
  3. ↑ Cantata for the high birth festival of the most noble princess and wife, Ms. Ulrica Sophia, Duchess of Mecklenburg, ... put into the music and performed / by Johann Wilhelm Hertel. Schwerin: Bear jump 1754
personal data
SURNAME Ulrike Sophie zu Mecklenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrike Sophie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Ulrica Sophia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess; Duchess of Mecklenburg
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabow
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1813
Place of death Rostock