Wolfardine by Minutoli
Wolfradine Auguste Luise von Minutoli , b. Countess von der Schulenburg (also Wolfardine or Wolfhardine as a given name; * February 1, 1794 ; † 1868 ) was a German writer .
She was the daughter of Adolph Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1759-1825) and Wolfardine von Kampen (1773-1794). After her first husband, a Colonel von Watzdorf , fell near Waterloo in 1815 , she married the archaeologist and Prussian general Heinrich Menu von Minutoli in Trieste in 1820 and accompanied him on his expedition to Egypt from 1820 to 1821. She became one of them of the first western women to tour Egypt.
She wrote a travelogue about her experiences in Egypt, which appeared in French in 1826 and then in German and English translation. This travelogue, in which the social and political conditions in Egypt were in the foreground and the antiquities in the background, was received by the English critics with friendly condescension. At least it was admitted that the description of the harem of Agas de Damietta deserved some interest. In addition, it is "interesting to observe how the miracles of Egypt work on the mind of women".
Fonts
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Mes souvenirs d'Égypte. Revue et publiées par Raoul-Rochette . 2 volumes. Nepveu, Paris 1826.
- English Recollections of Egypt by the Baroness Von Minutoli . London 1827 (translation by Susette Harriet Lloyd; digitized version ).
- German trip of the General Lady of Minutoli to Egypt. German edited by Wilhelmine von Gersdorff . Lauffer, Leipzig 1829 ( digitized version ). 2nd edition 1841.
literature
- Recollections of Egypt. In: The Monthly Review 1827, pp. 132-141, digitized
- Ulrike Stamm: A German Expedition to Egypt in 1821: Between Scientific Endeavor and Literary Vivification . In: European Romantic Review 28, 2017, pp. 65–80.
- Renate Kuen: Amalia Nizzoli e Wolfradine from Minutoli. Una fonte celata . In: Studi sul settecente e l'ottocento. Rivista internazionale di italianistica 12, 2017, pp. 103–117.
- Joachim S. Karig, Dorothea Minkels: Heinrich Menu von Minutoli and his outstanding family , Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978-3-7481-7568-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ "In truth, there is not an inconsiderable degree of pleasure to be derived from observing the effect, which the wonders of Egypt may have produced upon a female mind." The Monthly Review 1827, p. 132.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minutoli, Wolfardine by |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Minutoli, Wolfradine Auguste Luise von (full name); Minutoli, Wolfardine by; Minutoli, Wolfhardine von; Watzdorf, Wolfradine von; Schulenburg, Wolfradine von (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1794 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1868 |