Karoline Friederike von Berg
Karoline Friederike Countess of mountain born of Haeseler (* October 19, 1760 in Magdeburg, † November 15, 1826 in Teplitz ) was maid of honor and confidante of Queen Louise of Prussia. In Berlin, she kept up a literary salon.
Life
Family
Karoline Friederike was the daughter of the Royal Prussian Privy Legation Council Johann August von Haeseler (1724-1763) and his wife Sophie Dorothea 1758 wedded divorced of Marshal ( 1734-1802 ), daughter of the Prussian State Minister Heinrich Graf von Podewils. Caroline's paternal grandfather was August von Haeseler.
She married the Prussian Privy Councillor and Chamberlain Karl Ludwig Graf von Berg ( born April 16, 1754 † December 28, 1847 ), Lord on Kleptow, Werbelow, Schönfeld and small Spiegelberg. The marriage came from the daughter Luise Countess of Berg (1780-1865), who on 14 October 1800 the Count Ernst August von Voss on large Gievitz, the grandson of the mistress of Countess von Voss and later Prussian ambassador in Naples, married.
Confidante of Queen Louise
Karoline von Haeseler grew up in Weimar, where she used personal relationships with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried von Herder since her youth. The latter called it a treasure of common sense and active wisdom.
After her divorce came Karoline Friederike von Berg at the Prussian court in Berlin. There she performed, possibly switching her friend Marie von Kleist, as maid of honor in the service of Queen Luise, who chose her to her closest adviser and confidant soon. She made the Queen familiar with the works of the Weimar thinkers and was also quite generally the trigger and center of the Berlin Goethe worship in the time of the turn of the 18th to the 19th century.
The king liked the new handling his wife Luise little. He complained that " uncalled people their incomprehensible writings German Modeliteratoren, eccentric fashion writers into the hands played ," and sought to prevent this, as he wished to restrict also dealing with Frau von Berg.
Nevertheless, it was after the momentous years of 1806 and 1807, most intimate friend, who used to confess Luise what they themselves did not trust her brother. When the royal family had to flee from Napoleon's troops to Königsberg, Karoline accompanied the queen initially there, but returned, King antipathies because of, back to Berlin. After the return of the Queen in December 1809 she was back in their vicinity and accompanied the ill Luise on her last trip to their father to Neustrelitz. In the arms of Mrs. Luise von Berg passed away on July 19, 1810 Castle Hohenzieritz.
It was the first biographer of the Queen. In 1814 published Karoline Friederike von Berg their memories under the title: Louise, Queen of Prussia. The appendix is also her in 1811 in the morning paper published for educated stands essay on the last days of the Queen was printed.
Berlin Salonniére
In their home in the Wilhelmstrasse 70 perverted many poets and scholars. She was friends with Gleim, who once " our sacred Caroline " called, with the brothers Jacobi, the brothers Stolberg, Claudius, Voss, Herder, Wieland, Goethe and Jean Paul, who as " masculine, but best woman with "and" mental Amazone " celebrated. Even high government officials, such as the Baron von Stein wrong in their circle.
Maid of honor of Princess Friederike
After the death of the Prince of Solms- Braunfels in 1814, she was maid of honor to his widow, Princess Frederica of Mecklenburg -Strelitz, sister of Queen Louise. This office she had until her death, which overtook them during the cycle in Teplitz, held. Her death was gentle, she felt asleep and died, after a few weeks earlier completed their sechsundsechzigstes age.
Works
- The last days of Queen Louise (of Prussia) bey her illustrious father Mr. Neu- Strelitz and Mecklenburg High - Zieritz in from June 25 to July 19, 1810, at which the latter 19th July, also in High - Zieritz - ended, in: Morning Journal for the educated classes of 2 and May 3, 1811
- Louise Queen of Prussia. Dedicated to the Prussian nation. To the best of the widows and orphans retarded Landwehr men and voluntary hunter, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1814