Christiane Friederike Wilhelmine "Minna (Minchen)" Herzlieb (May 22, 1789- July 10, 1865) was a German female publisher, and a publisher of Karl Ernst Friedrich Frommann (1765-1839).

Life

Her father was a superintendent in her birthplace of Züllichau

Sulechów

Sulechów is a town in Poland, in Lubusz Voivodeship, in Zielona Góra County. It is the administrative seat of the Gmina Sulechów.-History:The area by 990 had been conquered by Duke Mieszko I of Poland and from 1138 was part of the Duchy of Silesia....

, Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia ; is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Upper Silesia is to the southeast.Throughout its history Lower Silesia has been under the control of the medieval Kingdom of Poland, the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy from 1526...

. Orphaned in infancy, she was brought up in the house of the publisher Karl Ernst Friedrich Frommann 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...

. In 1807 she came to Weimar, where she met Goethe, who presented her some sonnet

Sonnet

A sonnet is one of several forms of poetry that originate in Europe, mainly Provence and Italy. A sonnet commonly has 14 lines. The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning "little song" or "little sound"...

s. He also made her one of the models for "Ottilie

Ottilie

Ottilie is a girl's name stemming from the medieval German boy's name Otto. The name means "riches", "wealth" or "prosperity". It has never become very popular in modern culture and has remained very low on popularity rankings only reaching its peak in 1880 when it reached almost 600th position in...

" in his "Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities , also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809. The title is taken from a scientific term once used to describe the tendency of chemical species to combine with certain substances or species in preference...

".

In 1821 she married professor Karl Wilhelm Walch but it was not a love match and led to her mental breakdown and death in a mental hospital in Görlitz

Görlitz

Görlitz is a town in Germany. It is the easternmost town in the country, located on the Lusatian Neisse River in the Bundesland of Saxony. It is opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec, which was a part of Görlitz until 1945. Historically, Görlitz was in the region of Upper Lusatia...

 in 1865.

External links

• http://deutsch.pi-noe.ac.at/literatur2/weimar_goethe_herzlieb.htm (German)
• http://www.goethezeitportal.de/index.php?id=809 (with painting portrait)
• http://www.odysseetheater.com/goethe/goethe_30.htm (with painting portrait)
• http://www.kerber-net.de/literatur/deutsch/drama/goethe/personen/herzltxt.htm (with painting portrait)