Metta von Oberg

Metta of Oberg ( born November 10, 1737 Jersbek, † October 25, 1794 in Uetersen ) was a German baroness, pen lady and companion of Augusta Louise of Stolberg- Stolberg.

Life

Anna Metta of Oberg was the granddaughter of Benedict of Ahlefeldt and lived in the period 1762-1794 in the noble convent Uetersen. There she met Augusta Louise of Stolberg- Stolberg know moved as Konventualin 1770 in the monastery. Both lived together a small apartment in the house of the prioress of the monastery. Although Metta was 15 years older they shared a close friendship. She took part in the inward soul friendship her friend Louise Augusta and the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Again and again she encouraged the young Augusta Louise for correspondence with the poets, unaware that both should go down in the history of literature later. Even after 1783 Augusta Louise moved to Copenhagen the Danish Minister Andreas Peter Bernstorff to marry her best friend, she stood to one side, because the marriage took Auguste Louise also the education of the ten children of the count. Metta of Oberg died at the age of 57 after a long illness in the monastery of Uetersen. The tomb bears the arms of the Lords of Oberg in

Today it is certain that there had never been without Metta of Oberg the close correspondence between Augusta Louise of Stolberg- Stolberg and the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Swell

• Hans Ferdinand Bubbe: an attempt to chronicle the city and the monastery Uetersen. Volume 2 page 35-37 (1938 )
• Elsa Plath Langheinrich: When Goethe wrote to Uetersen: The Life of Conventualin Augusta Louise Countess of Stolberg- Stolberg. ISBN 3529026956

• Woman
• German
• Noble
• Born in 1737
• Died in 1794
• Person ( Uetersen )