Julie Bondeli
Julie Suzanne Bondeli ( born January 1, 1732 in Bern, † August 8, 1778 in Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss Salonnière in the Age of Enlightenment.
Life
The daughter of a Bernese patrician family, she spent her youth on the family estate Buchsi -Good in Köniz. Soon she became interested in languages , philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences, and one of her first teachers could have been Samuel Henzi. When her historical and literary scholarly father Friedrich Bondeli (1705-1761) Bailiff in Burgdorf, she received there other lessons from Johann Rudolf Gruner.
Later was formed in Bern them an intellectual circle, which included Niklaus Anton Kirchberger, Vincenz Bernhard Tscharner, Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli and Daniel Fell mountain, and Professors Albrecht Stapfer and Samuel Anton Wilhelmi. 1759 she became engaged hesitant to Christoph Martin Wieland, which they had visited in Bern and head over heels in love with her. However, right after Wieland fled precipitately from Bern and returned to his native town of Biberach an der Riss back.
As Jean -Jacques Rousseau in 1762 settled in Neuchatel Môtiers, she appeared with him in an exchange of letters and examined him in 1765 during a stay in Neuchâtel twice. Other correspondents were Johann Georg Zimmermann, Sophie von La Roche, Leonard Usteri, Johann Kaspar Lavater.
After her mother Julie Berseth 1767 death, she spent her last years in Neuchâtel as a companion to her friend Henriette Sandoz, the wife of a general Dutch services, and died there after severe suffering.
Goethe about Julie
- Leuchsenrings caskets contained in this sense some treasures. The letters of Julie Bondeli were very highly respected; she was a woman of sense and merit rooms and as Rousseau's girlfriend, famous. Those who had only been with any man in this extraordinary relationship, enjoyed participating in the glory that emanated from him, and in his name, a silent congregation was sown far and wide. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: truth and fiction book 13
Works
- The letters from Julie Bondeli to Johann Georg Zimmermann and Leonhard Usteri, from the French by Lilli Haller, Frauenfeld 1930