Ulrike von Levetzow
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Groitzsch
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, Saxony
Saxony
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– 13 November 1899) was a friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
. She met him at Marienbad and Karlsbad
Karlovy Vary
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in 1822 and 1823, when she was 18 and he was 73. The poet was so carried away with her wit and beauty that he thought for a time of marrying her and addressed to her the poems which he afterward called Trilogie der Leidenschaft. These poems include the famous Marienbad Elegy
Marienbad Elegy
The Marienbad Elegy is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.This poem, considered one of Goethe's finest and most personal, reflects the devastating sadness the poet felt when Baroness Ulrike von Levetzow declined his proposal...
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Publications
- Suphan, Goethe Jahrbuch, volume xxi (Frankfort, 1900)
- Kirschoer, Erinnerungen an Goethes Ulrike und an die Familie von Levetzow-Rauch (Aussig, 1904)