Amalie Schoppe
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Amalie Schoppe was a German author. She was also known by her pseudonyms Adalbert von Schonen, Amalia and Marie. She is most notable as the author of books for children and young people, with an oeuvre totaling 200 volumes. The Amalie-Schoppe-Weg in the Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord district of Hamburg and the Amalie-Schoppe-Straße in Burg auf Fehmarn are named after her.
, until her mother remarried in 1802 to the Hamburg businessman Johann Georg Burmeister. Schoppe showed talent in her youth above all for languages and medicine.
In 1814 she married F. H. Schoppe, later to become a lawyer, and they had three sons before his early death in 1829. After her husband's death she provided for her family by her prolific writing, as well as occasionally running a girls' reformatory alongside Fanny Tarnow
.
Her friends included Rosa Maria Assing
, Justinus Kerner
and Adelbert von Chamisso
, along with the young poet Friedrich Hebbel, whom she introduced to patrons and allowed to use her study. From 1827 to 1846 she edited the Pariser Modeblätter as well writing literary articles for it. She also wrote for several other magazines and from 1831 to 1839 edited the young peoples' magazine Iduna. From 1842 to 1845 she lived in Jena
, before moving back to Hamburg and finally in 1851 to the United States of America with her son, where she died aged 66 in Schenectady, New York
Life
The daughter of the doctor Friedrich Wilhelm Weise, after her father's death in 1798 she moved to live with an uncle with HamburgHamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, until her mother remarried in 1802 to the Hamburg businessman Johann Georg Burmeister. Schoppe showed talent in her youth above all for languages and medicine.
In 1814 she married F. H. Schoppe, later to become a lawyer, and they had three sons before his early death in 1829. After her husband's death she provided for her family by her prolific writing, as well as occasionally running a girls' reformatory alongside Fanny Tarnow
Fanny Tarnow
Fanny Tarnow was a German writer. She was born Franziska Christiane Johanna Friederike Tarnow and wrote under the pseudonyms Fanny and F.T..- Life :...
.
Her friends included Rosa Maria Assing
Rosa Maria Assing
Rosa Maria Antonetta Paulina Assing nee Varnhagen, was a German lyric poet, prose-writer, educator, translator and silhouette artist. She was the elder sister of Karl August Varnhagen, the sister-in-law of Rahel Levin, and the mother of Ottilie and Ludmilla Assing...
, Justinus Kerner
Justinus Kerner
Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner was a German poet and medical writer.-Life:He was born at Ludwigsburg in Württemberg...
and Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
, along with the young poet Friedrich Hebbel, whom she introduced to patrons and allowed to use her study. From 1827 to 1846 she edited the Pariser Modeblätter as well writing literary articles for it. She also wrote for several other magazines and from 1831 to 1839 edited the young peoples' magazine Iduna. From 1842 to 1845 she lived in Jena
Jena
Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...
, before moving back to Hamburg and finally in 1851 to the United States of America with her son, where she died aged 66 in Schenectady, New York
Schenectady, New York
Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 66,135...
Selected works
- Die Verwaisten, Leipzig 1825 (Digital version)
- Die Auswanderer nach Brasilien oder die Hütte am Gigitonhonha; nebst noch andern moralischen und unterhaltenden Erzählungen für die geliebte Jugend von 10 bis 14 Jahren, Amelang, Berlin 1828 (Digital version)
- Die Helden und Götter des Nordens, oder: Das Buch der Sagen, Berlin 1832 (Digital version)
- „…das wunderbarste Wesen, so ich je sah.“ Eine Schriftstellerin des Biedermeier (1791–1858) in Briefen und Schriften, herausgegeben von Hargen Thomsen, Bielefeld 2008. ISBN 978-3-89528-687-2
External links
- Amalie Schoppe on German Wikisource Works on and by Amalie Schoppe in the catalogue of the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Books on and by Amalie Schoppe in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Works by Amalie Schoppe on Zeno.orgZeno.orgZeno.org is a digital library with German texts and other content such as pictures, facsimile, etc., which has been started by the Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, a German publishing house and sister enterprise of Directmedia Publishing GmbH. The content is based on the digital libraries from the...