Elisa von der Recke

Elisa von der Recke
Elisa von der Recke
	Elisa von der Recke (Anton Graff 1797)
Born	20 May 1754; Schönberg, Duchy of Courland and Semigallia; (present-day Skaistkalne, Vecumnieki Municipality, Latvia)
Died	13 April 1833 (aged 78); Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Confederation
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Baltic German
Spouse	Georg von der Recke

Elisabeth "Elisa" Charlotte Constanzia von[1] der Recke (née von Medem; 20 May 1754 – 13 April 1833) was a Baltic German writer and poet.

Family

Elisa von der Recke was born in Schönberg, Skaistkalne parish, Courland, the daughter of Graf (later Reichsgraf) Johann Friedrich von Medem and his wife, Luise Dorothea von Korff. Her younger half-sister was Dorothea von Medem, for whom she carried out diplomatic work. In 1771 she married Kammerherr Georg Peter Magnus von der Recke, living with him at Neuenburg Castle (now Jaunpils Castle). She separated from him in 1776 and divorced in 1781. Their daughter, Frederika von der Recke, died in 1777.

Life

In 1787 her first book, Nachricht von des berüchtigten Cagliostro Aufenthalt in Mitau im Jahre 1779 und dessen magischen Operationen, a memoir-exposé of the months when she studied magic with "Count" Alessandro di Cagliostro, made a great impact right across Europe, with Catherine the Great even granting Elisa lands in Russia in recognition of the work (making Elisa financially independent). She got to know Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Herder and other European literary figures, and intensified their relationships through prolific correspondence.

From 1798 she lived almost exclusively in Dresden, and from 1804 cohabited there with her friend Christoph August Tiedge. Their meetings were religio-sentimentalist in tone, with the singing of chorales by Johann Gottlieb Naumann. Her works consisted mainly of pietist-sentimentalist poems, journals and memoirs.

Elisa von der Recke looked after thirteen foster daughters. She died in Dresden and is buried at the Innerer Neustädter Friedhof in Dresden.

Works

Nachricht von des berüchtigten Cagliostro Aufenthalt in Mitau im Jahre 1779 und dessen magischen Operationen, 1787
Johann Lorenz Blessig (Hrsg.): Leben des Grafen Johann Friedrich von Medem nebst seinem Briefwechsel hauptsächlich mit der Frau Kammerherrinn von der Recke, seiner Schwester, 1792 (Digitalisat)
Familien=Scenen oder Entwickelungen auf dem Masquenballe, ca. 1794, published in 1826 (Digitalisat)
Über Naumann, den guten Menschen und großen Künstler, article in Neuen Deutschen Merkur, 1803

Posthumously published

Geistliche Lieder, Gebete und religiöse Betrachtungen, Teubner, Leipzig 1841
Elisa von der Recke. Band 1. Aufzeichnungen und Briefe aus ihren Jugendtagen, hrsg. von Paul Rachel, 2. Auflage 1902
Elisa von der Recke. Band 2. Tagebücher und Briefe aus ihren Wanderjahren, hrsg. von Paul Rachel, 1902
Herzensgeschichten einer baltischen Edelfrau. Erinnerungen und Briefe, Lutz, Stuttgart 1921
Tagebücher und Selbstzeugnisse, hrsg. v. Christine Träger, Köhler und Amelang, Leipzig / Beck, München 1984, ISBN 3-406-30196-7

Gallery

by Tischbein, 1775
by Joseph Friedrich August Darbes, 1784
by Ernst Gottlob, 1785
by Anton Graff, 1790
by Gerhard von Kügelgen, 1812

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References

In German personal names, von is a preposition which approximately means of or from and usually denotes some sort of nobility. While von (always lower case) is part of the family name or territorial designation, not a first or middle name, if the noble is referred to by surname alone in English, use Schiller or Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.

External links

Media related to Elisa von der Recke at Wikimedia Commons

Elisa von der Recke in the German National Library catalogue
Nachweis von digitalisierten Zeitschriftenbeiträgen at Litlinks
Article on Stadtwiki Dresden about Elisa von der Recke
The Sophie Project, Elisa von der Recke

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[1] In German personal names, von is a preposition which approximately means of or from and usually denotes some sort of nobility. While von (always lower case) is part of the family name or territorial designation, not a first or middle name, if the noble is referred to by surname alone in English, use Schiller or Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.