Friederike Brun
Friederike Brun ( born Münter, full name: Sophie Friederike Christiane Brun, born June 3, 1765 in Gräfentonna, Thuringia, † March 25, 1835 in Copenhagen) was a Danish writer of German origin.
Life
Friederike Brun was the daughter of the preacher Balthasar Münter and the sister of the future Copenhagen Bishop Friedrich Münter.
At the age of five years she came with her father to Copenhagen. There she grew up and learned their education. About her father she soon learned the Count Christian of Stolberg- Stolberg brothers and Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg - Stolberg know. At age 18 she married in 1783 the Danish Legation Councillor Constantine Brun, who was soon appointed as consul to Saint Petersburg. But a year later, the couple returned to Copenhagen. From then on she was known as Madame de Stael in the North.
In very severe winters the turn of 1788/89 Brun completely lost her hearing and received it not again. In addition to her duties as a housewife and mother, she now began her literary work. From 1790 her first poems in various almanacs published. Friedrich Schiller published her poems to you and confidence in his magazine The Horen.
1791 Brun traveled with her family to Geneva, Paris and southern France. 1795 she traveled for several months in Switzerland and Italy. In the years 1801-1810, the countries of southern Europe were the favorite destinations and over again. From 1810 Brun gave up their long and arduous journeys and now resided alternately in Copenhagen and on her country estate Sophienholm. At the age of 70 years Friederike Brun died on 25 March 1835 in Copenhagen.
Works
- Diary of a journey through the eastern, southern and Italian Switzerland 1800
- Episodes from traveling through southern Germany etc. 1808
- Customs and landscape studies of Naples and its surroundings in 1818
- Letters from Rome 1818
- Poems 1795, 1812, 1820
- Truth from morning dreams and Ida's aesthetic development in 1824
- Roman life in 1833