Английская Википедия:Catharina Elisabeth Goethe

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Catharina Elisabeth Goethe, born Catharina Elisabeth Textor, (19 February 1731 – 13 September 1808) was the mother of German playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his sister Cornelia Schlosser. She was also known by the nickname Frau Aja and the title Frau Rat.

Biography

Catharina Elisabeth was born to Johann Wolfgang Textor (1693–1771) and Anna Margaretha Lindheimer (1711–1783) on 19 February 1731.Шаблон:Sfn Johann Wolfgang was a wealthy lawyer involved with Frankfurt politics.Шаблон:Sfn She married Johann Caspar Goethe, on 20 August 1748,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn after which she moved into his house on Großer Hirschgraben.Шаблон:Sfn Three months later, she became pregnant aged 18,Шаблон:Sfn and her son Johann Wolfgang was born at the house on 28 August 1749.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Goethe was soon pregnant again, and gave birth to her second child, Cornelia, on 7 December 1750.Шаблон:Sfn 5 more children followed, but none survived to adulthood.Шаблон:Sfn After the death of Georg Adolf in 1761, the Goethes did not try for any more children; each birth posed a great risk to both the mother and child.Шаблон:Sfn Catharina Elisabeth's role in the Goethe household primarily involved looking after her children; the Goethes had a servant, a cook and two maids who did most of the household tasks.Шаблон:Sfn

Catharina Elisabeth was a pietist and did not often attend church, preferring the conventicle of the pietists instead.Шаблон:Sfn

Файл:Goethe Familie J.C. Seekatz@Weimar Goethe Nationalmuseum.JPG
A painting of the Goethe family; left to right: Catharina Elisabeth, Johann Caspar, Johann Wolfgang, Cornelia. The cherubs in the background represent the five children who died before adulthood.

In 1774, Johann Wolfgang published The Sorrows of Young Werther, which brought him great fame, and thus many guests came to visit the Goethe household. Catharina Elisabeth revelled in caring for these guests.Шаблон:Sfn In 1775, Goethe moved to Weimar, but the Goethe House in Frankfurt still remained a popular spot to visit, with guests wanting to meet the mother of the famed playwright.Шаблон:Sfn Many of these guests became correspondents of Catharina Elisabeth,Шаблон:Sfn such as Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Bettina von Arnim.

Johann Caspar became ill in 1780, and died in 1782,Шаблон:Sfn after which Catharina Elisabeth occupied their house alone. She sold the house in 1795 and moved into an apartment on Frankfurt's Roßmark,Шаблон:Sfn in which she lived until her death on 13 September 1808.Шаблон:Sfn Goethe was buried at the Textor family grave in the Шаблон:Ill in Frankfurt.

Legacy

She is the heroine of Bettina von Arnim's Dies Buch gehört dem König (1843), and is one of the central figures of Karl Gutzkow 's play Der Königsleutnant.Шаблон:Citation needed

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of her death, a marble statue was erected of Catharina Elisabeth in the Palmengarten, showing her playing with the young Johann Wolfgang.[1]

In 1876, the first secondary school for girls in Frankfurt, the Elisabethenschule was named after Catharina Elisabeth.[2]

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Шаблон:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Шаблон:Authority control