EINE FRAU IN DER KULTUR, DIE KULTUR EINER FRAU: CAROLINE VON HUMBOLDT

• Published in: Literatūra Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 47 - 54
• Main Author: Kowalska, Elżbieta M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; German
• Published: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla 2008; Vilnius University Press
• Subjects: Literary Texts
• ISSN: 0258-0802; 1648-1143
• DOI: 10.15388/Litera.2008.5.7800

The subject of this presentation is Wilhelm von
Humboldt’s wife, Alexander von Humboldt’s sisterin-
law, a close female friend of Lotte Schiller and of
her sister, Caroline von Wolzogen, held in high
regard by Goethe, admired by Schiller, the former
Fräulein von Dacheröden from Erfurt, the future
Caroline von Humboldt. She was the ancestress of
one of the most respected and best German noble
families, a mother of eight children, an intellectually
gifted woman, in which the German ideals of femininity
were fulfilled, who knew to lead the salons
and to talk about arts and literature.