Von Levetzow, Ulrike
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| born on | 4 February 1804 at 20:25 (= 8:25 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Löbnitz (Sachsen), Germany, 51n35, 12e28 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m12e28 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   14°52'   25°43 Asc. 22°58'
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Biography
A friend and the last love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
She first met Goethe in 1821 at Marienbad and again at Carlsbad in 1822 and 1823. The poet, then 72, was so carried away with her wit and beauty that he thought for a time of marrying her and urged Grand Duke Karl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach to ask for her hand in his name. Rejected, he left for Thuringia and addressed to her the poems which he afterward called Trilogie der Leidenschaft. These poems include the famous Marienbad Elegy.
Ulrike later confessed she was not prepared to marry and annoyedly denied a liaison with Goethe. She remained a bachelor woman for all her life and died on 13 November 1899 at the age of 95 at Trziblitz Castle inBohemia.
Relationships
- lover relationship with Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (born 28 August 1749)
Events
Source Notes
Arno Muller, vol 3
Sy Scholfield quotes "around 8:30pm" from birth record quoted in "Goethes Fräulein in Böhmen: Ulrike von Levetzow ; eine Leipzigerin von altpreussischer Herkunft ; Lebenszeugnisse und Lebensumstände" by Peter Uhrbach (Sax-Verlag, 2009), p. 17:
"Die Angaben entsprechen seinen Eintragungen im Kirchenbuch: 'Auf Verlangen wird hiermit attestiert, das des hochwürdigen und Hoch- wohlgeborenen Herrn Joachim Otto Ulrich Freiherrn v. Levetzow, herzogl. mecklenburg-Schwerinischen Kammerherrns, Rittern des Maltheser-Ordens, Erb-, Lehr- und Gerichtsherrns auf Kassow Frau Gemahlin, Frau Amalie Theodore Caroline, eine gebohrene v. Broessigke, Sonnabends den vierten Februar des jetzt laufenden Ein Tausend, acht Hundert und vierten Jahres, abends gegen halb neun Uhr ...'
Abridged translation: The data corresponds to the entry in the parish register: '... on Saturday, the fourth of February, eighteen hundred and four, in the evening around half past eight o'clock ...
The source is given as "Neues Kirchenbuch für die zu der Kirche in Gatzen gehörigen Gemeinden Gatzen, Löbnitz, Bennewitz, Saasdorf und Altengroitzsch mit den Angaben zu Taufen und Sterbefällen, die zwischen 1800 und 1836 dort vorgekommen sind." [New Church book belonging to the church in the Gatzen communities of Gatzen, Löbnitz, Bennewitz, Saasdorf and Old Groitzsch with the details of baptisms and deaths that have occurred there 1800-1836.]
Categories
- Notable : Famous : Other Famous (lover of Goethe)
