Wilhelmine Karoline von Wobeser

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Wilhelmine Karoline von Wobeser (born Wilhelmine Karoline von Rebeur ; born February 19, 1769 in Berlin , † 1807 at Gut Wirschen near Stolp in Pomerania ) was a German writer.

Life

Wilhelmine Karoline von Wobeser was born in Berlin in 1769 as the eldest daughter of the Royal Prussian Chamber President Christian Ludwig von Rebeur. Through her father she received a good education which, in addition to reading German scripts, also included French literature. In 1797 she married the royal Prussian captain Friedrich von Wobeser , who came from an old Pomeranian noble family. He owned the Wirschen estate near Stolp in Pomerania, where Wilhelmine Karoline von Wobeser died in 1807.

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Her work Elisa, or the woman as it should be, was published anonymously in 1795 and was a great success. As early as 1800 the fifth edition of the novel was published by Heinrich Gräff in Leipzig, numerous pirated prints as well as translations etc. a. into English and French led to a wide and international distribution. At the same time, the strict subordination of women to men, which was rigorously demanded in the novel, which just led to the woman giving up herself, resulted in numerous counter-writings, but also continuations and imitations.

Wilhelmine Karoline von Wobeser did not mention her name in any of the new editions, despite the request of her publisher Heinrich Gräff. a. based on her pregnancy and the duties of a housewife, Schindel says that "her merit as a writer [...] was far exceeded by that which she had in the short time of her life as a wife and mother". As the author, so u. a. Christiane Sophie Ludwig , Benedigte Naubert , Friederike Lohmann , Caroline Auguste Fischer and even their husband Christian August Fischer suspected.

After Wilhelmine Karoline von Wobeser's death, there were a few mixed-up essays with a moral and natural historical content in her files, but these were not published.

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Otto August Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century . Second part: M – Z. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, pp. 436–444.
  • Lydia Schieth: "Afterword". In: Wilhelmine Karoline von Wobeser: Elisa or the woman as it should be. Reprint of the Leipzig, Graeff edition. Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1990, ISBN 3-487-09268-9 , pp. 1–39 ( Early women's literature in Germany 8).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal register Nikolaikirche, No. 51/1769
  2. ↑ Online at zeno.org
  3. ^ Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German writers of the nineteenth century. Second part MZ. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, p. 437f.

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personal data
SURNAME Wobeser, Wilhelmine Karoline from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rebeur, Wilhelmine Karoline von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1807
Place of death Have a good time at Stolp , Pomerania