Maximiliane Brentano (May 1756 – 19 November 1793) was a German woman who is notable for her friendship to the young Goethe and as the mother of the writers Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim.
Early life and family
edit[[File:BrentanoFamilienbild.jpg|thumb|right| Maximiliane Euphrosine von La Roche was born in Mainz in May 1756.[a] Her mother was the author Sophie von La Roche and her father was Georg Michael La Roche, an adopted and probably illegitimate son of Count Anton Heinrich Friedrich von Stadion, a high ranking court official working for the Elector of Mainz.[4][5] Maximiliane was the oldest of eight children, five of whom reached adulthood.[6]
In Mainz, the family lived in the Stadioner Hof palace.[7] After Stadion's 1761 retirement, they accompanied him and moved to Schloss Warthausen with his family.[7] When Stadion died in 1768, relations between his legitimate sons and La Roche were strained, and the family moved on to live in the Stadionsches Schloss castle in Bönnigheim, where Maximiliane's father had inherited a position from Stadion.[8] to Ehrenbreitstein
In 1771,
Goethe
editBettina later found letters from Goethe to Sophie about Maxe. Werther.
Married life and children
editDied in Frankfurt.
Grandchild Franz Brentano via Christian Brentano
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ Krämer 1994.
- ^ Hessische Biografie.
- ^ Schultz 2001, p. 13.
- ^ Strohmeyr 2010, p. 22.
- ^ Schultz 2001, p. 32.
- ^ Strohmeyr 2010, pp. 23–24.
- ^ a b Strohmeyr 2010, p. 24.
- ^ Strohmeyr 2010, p. 26.
Sources
edit- Hock, Sabine (2006-04-25). "Maxe war Goethes Lebensglück". www.sabinehock.de. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- Krämer, Leoni (1994-09-30). "Brentano, Maximiliane". Frankfurter Personenlexikon. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- Schmitz-Scholeman, Christoph (2018-11-19). "225. Todestag von Maximiliane Brentano - Mutter zweier Dichter und Goethes Jugendfreundin". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- Schultz, Hartwig (2001). Die Frankfurter Brentanos (in German). Stuttgart München: Dt. Verl.-Anst. ISBN 978-3-421-05436-4.
- Strohmeyr, Armin (2010). Die Frauen der Brentanos: Porträts aus drei Jahrhunderten. List-Taschenbuch. Berlin: List. ISBN 978-3-548-60949-2.
- "Brentano, Maximiliane Euphrosyne". Hessische Biografie. 2023-08-23. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/deutschland/limburg/frankfurt-dompfarrei-kaiserdom-st-bartholomaeus/FDom+K+36_1/?pg=30 death
- https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/deutschland/limburg/frankfurt-dompfarrei-kaiserdom-st-bartholomaeus/FDom+K+4_3/?pg=37 marriage entry (but note it says "confluentiae", in Koblenz).
- Michaelis, Sabine; Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Frankfurt am Main, Germany); Frankfurter Goethe-Museum (1982). Katalog der Gemälde : Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurter Goethe -Museum. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer.
- Steig, Reinhold (1866). "Maximiliane Brentano, geb. von La Roche". Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann: 238–239.
- https://archive.org/details/youthofgoethe00browiala/page/186/mode/2up?q=brentano
- https://archive.org/details/bildnisderlieben0000baum/page/182/mode/2up?q=%22maxe+brentano%22
- https://archive.org/details/goethedaslebenim00meye/page/118/mode/2up?q=%22maxe+brentano%22
- https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Goethe_Galerie/_zYk9e1njGEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Goethe-Galerie+/+Nach+Original-Kartons+von+Wilhelm+von+Kaulbach&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover "Goethe in Frankfurt": "Ganzfigur nach halbrechts, als Schlittschuhläufer auf dem Eis bei Frankfurt, rechts seine Mutter Catharina Elisabeth, seine Schwester Cornelia und Maximiliane Brentano einen Schneeball in der Hand haltend. Im Hintergrund der Dom. : Radierung / Bild u.l.: W. Kaulbach", compare https://d-nb.info/1154012174
- https://www-degruyter-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/document/doi/10.1515/9783110937145.107/html
- https://global.museum-digital.org/object/671996