Ottilie Wildermuth

Ottilie Wildermuth, born Rooschütz ( born February 22, 1817 in Rottenburg am Neckar, † July 12, 1877 in Tübingen) was a German writer and children's author.

Life

Ottilie Rooschütz was born the daughter of the Marbach Crime Council and later Upper magistrate Christian Gottlob Rooschütz (1785-1847) and his wife Leonore born Scholl (1796-1874) to the world. Early on, showed her strong thirst for knowledge. She wrote poems and wrote their own stories, even in recent years. In the summer of 1833 she was able to spend six months of training in the residence city of Stuttgart.

In 1843 she married at the age of 26 years, ten years her senior philologist Wilhelm David Wildermuth ( 1807-1885 ). Wilhelm Wildermuth had after a longer stay as a tutor in France and England a job as professor of modern languages ​​at the Lyceum in Tübingen, today's high school. Ottilie joined with Tübingen women to a ring together, to which she belonged for 34 years until her death. For friends of the couple Wildermuth belonged from the beginning Ludwig Uhland and his wife, Emilie Auguste, born Vischer, Auguste Eisenlohr, the daughter of the village priest Gustav Feuerlein from Wolfschlugen and her husband Theodor Eisenlohr, the family of the poet Karl Mayer, Karl August Klüpfel, Gustav Schwab and " as usual ", a number of Tübingen university professors. Your versatile education enabled Ottilie in the work of her husband participate. Like her husband, she taught English.

Of the five children she brought 1844-1856 to the world, survived the daughters Agnes and Adelheid and the son Herrmann. In 1847 she sent the first time a story titled " The Old Maid " at Cotta's morning paper. Once this has been accepted for publication, she wrote more stories, novellas, life images, Family and Youth stories, idyllic depictions Swabian Protestant life, their materials they moved from their surrounding area. The widely read family magazines ( home, The Gazebo, etc.) printed on their respective public taste stories and made ​​them the most famous writer of her time. In 1870 she founded the children's magazine Youth Garden, which was later continued by her daughters Agnes Willms and Adelheid Wildermuth. 1871 was Ottilie Wildermuth in Württemberg, the large gold medal for art and science.

In its fiftieth year her health was severely attacked by a nervous disorder. On July 12, 1877 Ottilie Wildermuth died sixty round a stroke. Her grave is located on the Tübingen city cemetery, a monument dedicated to her with a Hochrelieftondo by Wilhelm Roesch is located on the Neckar Tübingen island near the avenue bridge. The nearby, built in 1927 Wildermuth Gymnasium was also named after her.

Works

• Pictures and stories from the Swabian life, in 1852, digitized Swabian presbyteries

• A sunless life, in 1855, digitized
• The Apprenticeship of two sisters digitized

Others

Her grandson was the politician Eberhard Wildermuth.