Christiana Mariana von Ziegler
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (born Christiana Mariana Romanus, born June 28, 1695 in Leipzig, † May 1, 1760 in Frankfurt an der Oder) was a German writer to the Enlightenment.
Life
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler was the first child of the lawyer Franz Conrad Romanus and his wife Christiana Maria, nee Brummer. His father was mayor of the city of Leipzig in 1701 and was one of the sponsors of Georg Philipp Telemann, who lived in Leipzig 1701-1704. The arrest of the father for money embezzlement and forgery exchange coined the just eleven years old girl, even if the reputation of the family under the custody of the father hardly suffered. Franz Conrad Romanus died in 1746 in prison without a formal judgment against him would have been spoken.
Only 16, married Christiana Mariana Romanus Henry Levin of Könitz, making them climb in the state of the lower nobility. The husband, however, died already in 1712 shortly after the birth of their child, Johanna Mariana Henrietta of Könitz. She married again in 1715 and moved with her second husband, Captain George Friedrich von Ziegler, on his estate Eckart lives near Erfurt. The second daughter, Carolina Augusta Louisa von Ziegler was born in 1716. 1722 Georg Friedrich died of Ziegler, shortly after the two daughters.
As a widow, returned Christiana Mariana von Ziegler to Leipzig, where their financial circumstances allow her to live independently. In the following years to 1741, she was the center of one of the first literary and musical salons in Germany, she in her parents' home, the Romanushaus opened. In addition to Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Christoph Gottsched was among the visitors, which was introduced in 1724 by Christiana Mariana von Ziegler in the Leipzig society. Bach already set to music in 1725 nine sacred cantatas Christiana Mariana by Ziegler, which were published as well as other seals in 1728, a second part followed 1729th She has published articles in Gottscheds Moral Wochenschrift The reasonable Tadlerinnen and 1730 it was the first and only female member of Gottscheds " German society "in Leipzig. On October 17, 1733 she received from the University of Wittenberg, the imperial crown of a privileged poet " Poeta laureata " her last work was published six years later.
In November 1741 married Christiana Mariana von Ziegler Professor of history, the nature of international law and wolf Balthasar Adolf stone weir, with whom she moved to the Oder to Frankfurt. Literary she only appeared with translations to the public. In Frankfurt on the Oder she died in 1760 at the age of 64 years.
Works
- Attempt in bound style of writing in 1728
- In Bound style of writing: the other and the last part of 1729
- Moral and mingled missive: to some of your familiar and good friends gestellet 1731
- Vermischete writings in bound and unbound speech 1739