Marie Nathusius
Marie Nathusius, born Scheele ( born March 10, 1817 in Magdeburg, † December 22, 1857 in Neinstedt ) was a popular storyteller and Liederkomponistin. In addition to E. Marlitt she was the most widely read German entertainment and youth writer of her generation. Their bestsellers Diary of a poor young lady (1854 ), Long stone and Boblingen (1855 ) and Elizabeth. A story that does not include the marriage (1858 ) were up in the 1920s, reissued.
Life
The daughter of the Pietist pastor embossed and later Superintendent Friedrich August Scheele spent her childhood and youth in calbe (Saale ) where she received a poor education. From 1834 onwards, she lived in Magdeburg, from 1835 in Eike village where she led the brother of the household and took over the education of his foster children.
In March 1841, she married the factory in 1861 on the occasion of the accession of King William of Prussia raised to the peerage and journalist Philip of Nathusius ( 1815-1872 ). After several trips to Provence, to Italy and Switzerland, the couple in Althaldensleben settled and founded in 1844 a " Kinderverwahranstalt ", a women's club for the local nursing, "rescue homes " for boys and girls, and a " work with girls school." After traveling to Paris and England in 1849 attracted Nathusius and her husband in 1850 to the newly acquired Good Neinstedt to Thale in the Harz Mountains and founded a " boy's rescue and brother house" (see Neinstedter institutions).
The couple had seven children, including the later politician Philipp von Nathusius - LUDOM (1842-1900) and the later reform theologian Martin of Nathusius (1843-1906), both of which have emerged in publishing. The daughter of the former, the author Annemarie of Nathusius (1874-1926), is Marie Nathusius ' granddaughter.
Philip of Nathusius was until 1858 the people sheet out for city and country for the instruction and entertainment. Most novels and stories Marie Nathusius ' appeared there as preprints. The family was also close friends with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Faller life. Marie Nathusius set to music in 1847 its poems. From the joint publication Forty Songs Children Songs by Hoffmann von Fallersleben their piano accompaniment to the children's song today generally known dates All birds are already there, the melody of which goes back to an older folk song. When Marie Nathusius 1857 died unexpectedly early, processed her friend Eleanor Princess of Reuss their grief in the poem The year is silent to the end. Nathusius ' man Philip has written a three-volume Life picture of departed Marie Nathusius ( 1867/68 ) for the posthumous five ten-volume edition of the works collected writings Marie Nathusius ' ( 1858-1869 ).