Caroline Schelling
Caroline Schelling, née Michaelis, widowed Böhmer, divorced Schlegel (2 September 1763 – 7 September 1809), was a noted German intellectual. She was one of the so-called Universitätsmamsellen, a group of five academically active women during the 18th and 19th centuries, daughters of academics at Göttingen University, alongside Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, Therese Huber, Philippine Engelhard, and Dorothea Schlözer.
Biography
Schelling was born at
In Mainz, Schelling joined the intellectual circle around
Schelling and August Schlegel married in 1796, and she moved to
In 1803, she divorced Schlegel and married the young philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Her new husband was at the center of Romantic natural philosophy. The couple moved to Würzburg, but were maligned by gossip. In 1806, they moved to Munich, where Friedrich Schelling received a professorship and was honored for his work.[6]
Between 1805 and 1807, Schelling published several reviews in her own name and assisted her husband in his reviews, which shaped Romantic literature and literary taste. She also engaged in extensive correspondence with numerous Romantics. Having suffered poor health for some time, she died of dysentery in 1809.[7]
References
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- ISBN 9781474255981.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ISBN 9781474255981.
- ISBN 9781474255981.
- ISBN 9781474255981.
- ISBN 9781474255981.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schelling, Karoline". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This work in turn cites:
- Georg Waitz, Caroline: Briefe an ihre Geschwister, etc. (2 vols., 1871)
- Georg Waitz, Caroline und ihre Freunde (1882)
- Johannes Janssen, Eine Kulturdame und ihre Freunde, Zeit und Lebensbilder (1885)
- Mrs. A. [Cecily] Sidgwick, Caroline Schlegel and her Friends (London, 1899)
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