Charlotte Schimmelmann

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Charlotte Schimmelmann
Charlotte Schimmelmann, miniature portrait by Cornelius Høyer (c. 1800)
Born(1757-08-10)10 August 1757
Died2 December 1816(1816-12-02) (aged 59)
NationalityGerman-Danish
Known forSalons
SpouseErnst Heinrich von Schimmelmann

Magdalene Charlotte Hedevig Schimmelmann (10 August 1757 – 2 December 1816) was a Danish noblewoman and salonist.[1]

Biography

Magdalene Charlotte Schubart was born at Fossum in

Skien, Norway to Lieutenant Carl Rudolph Schubart (1714–59) and Inger Løvenskiold (1732–1808). On 25 May 1782, she married the statesman Count Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann (1747–1831). After the coup d'état against Ove Høegh-Guldberg in 1784, he became Minister of Finance until 1813 and later Prime Minister.[2]

Her salon was organized according to the French pattern and was renowned abroad. The latest developments in

philosophers and politicians, and played a part in the country's political scene. It was inspired by a form of "aristocratic humanism", and by the ideas of the French Revolution
in 1789.

Her husband opened

Napoleonic wars, which made her salon considered to be a center of political corruption
, which made it unfashionable.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Charlotte Schimmelmann (1757 - 1816) (Dansk Biografisk Leksikon)". Kvinfo.dk. 15 May 2003. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Heinrich Carl Schimmelmann (Store norske leksikon)". Snl.no. Retrieved 5 May 2012.

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