Wilhelmine Sostmann

Wilhelmine Anna Elisabeth Sostmann (also: Anna Wilhelmine Elise Blumenhagen ; nickname Minna ; born September 21, 1788 in Hanover ; † November 30, 1864 in Hamburg ) was a German writer and actress . She wrote numerous novels and short stories that were very popular at the time.

Life

Born in 1788 at the time of the Electorate of Hanover in the royal seat of Hanover, long orphaned by the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover, as the daughter of a royal clerk and sister of the doctor and writer Wilhelm Blumenhagen and the doctor and writer Carl Julius Blumenhagen , "Minna" married the lawyer Maximilian in 1805 Heinrich Philipp Anton Sostmann († 1834), who became a soldier during the so-called " French era " in 1813 and moved to Hamburg .

Wilhelmine Sostmann followed her husband to Hamburg and after his death in 1834 lived temporarily impoverished. Only shortly before her own death did the German Schiller Foundation guarantee her a pension .

Fonts (selection)

The Countesses Caboga. A novel (3 volumes), 1826
Monthly roses (contains: The Spanish Virgin and Rosalinde, the sacrifice of love ), Leipzig: Taubert, 1826
Man's heart and loyalty to women. A novel , Braunschweig: Meyer, 1828
The Archbishop of Madrid, novel in two parts , Hamburg 1835
Novellas and Stories , 1864 (written in 1829), 2 volumes:
- Vol. 1: Leonore. Blessing of tears ;
- Vol. 2: Judgment of Fate. The seductress
The last Tudors on the throne of England , 3 volumes, Braunschweig: GCE Meyer, 1845
Prince and Minister , Braunschweig: GCE Meyer senior, 1851
The Polish Jew. Historical novel , 1864 (written in 1833)

literature

Elisabeth Friedrichs : The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries . a lexicon , from Metzler, Stuttgart; 1981, ISBN 3476004562

Web links

Wilhelmine Sostmann in the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog of the library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences - Technology and Economics

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hugo Thielen : SOSTMANN, (1) Anna Wilhelmine. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 339.
^ Klaus Mlynek : Capital (function). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 274.
^ Hugo Thielen: Blumenhagen, Philipp Georg August Wilhelm. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 69f
^ Karl Ludwig Grotefend : Blumenhagen, Philipp Georg August Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 751.

personal data
SURNAME	Sostmann, Wilhelmine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sostmann, Wilhelmine Anna Elisabeth (full name); Blumenhagen, Anna Wilhelmine Elise; Sostmann, Minna; Blumenhagen, Minna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1864
Place of death	Hamburg

[DNB-1] Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library

[HBL-2] Hugo Thielen : SOSTMANN, (1) Anna Wilhelmine. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 339.

[3] Klaus Mlynek : Capital (function). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 274.

[4] Hugo Thielen: Blumenhagen, Philipp Georg August Wilhelm. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 69f

[5] Karl Ludwig Grotefend : Blumenhagen, Philipp Georg August Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 751.