Sylvie von Ziegesar

Sylvie von Ziegesar ( born June 21, 1785 Good Drackendorf ( now part Drackendorf of Jena), † February 13, 1858 in Großneuhausen at Buttstädt ) was friend of the painter Louise Seidler and subject of the poem An Sylvie von Ziegesar by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Life

Sylvie von Ziegesar came in 1785 as a subsidiary of the Gotha receding August Friedrich Carl and Magdalene Auguste von Ziegesar born Wangenheim on the estate Drackendorf in Jena to the world. Her father held the duchy of Saxe-Gotha numerous offices, which included that of the chancellor. He knew Goethe as a friend of the family.

In Jena Sylvie von Ziegesar was friends with Louise Seidler and Pauline Gotter, later wife of the Jena professor Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling. Sylvie Ziegesar had fully authorized access to the mentally upright circles Jenas, which at that time creative minds such as Friedrich Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich brothers and August Wilhelm Schlegel, Friedrich Tieck, Clemens Brentano, Johann Heinrich Voss, Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus, Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer, Zacharias Werner and others housed. In 1802 and learned Sylvie von Ziegesar in her father's house to know the then 53 -year-old Goethe.

In early summer 1808, Goethe devoted staying at a spa in Karlovy Vary the beautiful Sylvie von Ziegesar and her friend Pauline Gotter. In the great poem An Sylvie von Ziegesar he greeted her as a daughter, friend. Liebchen. Still other poems and numerous letters testified to the cordial relations between the two that lasted even after her marriage in 1814 with the professor and garrison preacher Friedrich August Koethe, was the founder of the anthology Contemporary biographies and characteristics. Goethe even visited the young couple in Jena and was godfather to their first child. Sylvie traits of goat Sars have been received in the form of Ottilie in Elective Affinities.

On February 13, 1858 Sylvie Koethe died née von Ziegesar in Großneuhausen at Buttstädt. Your tomb can be visited in Großneuhausen yet. ( - February 10, 1853 October 10, 1816) and a daughter Selma ( April 22, 1815 - June 12, 1866) with her ​​son Carl are in the tomb still buried.

The author Cecily von Ziegesar is a descendant of Sylvie.

Swell

• To the tomb in Großneuhausen