biography
| name: |
Schelling, Karoline von
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née Michaelis
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pronunciation:
[sheling]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1763–1809)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Göttingen, C Germany. During her marriage with August Wilhelm Schlegel (1796–1803), hers was the leading literary salon of the early Romantics in Jena. She assisted her husband in his work and was active in promoting the Romantic enthusiasm for Goethe. Following her divorce, she married Friedrich Schelling in 1803. She had earlier been associated in Mainz with a group sympathetic to the French occupying force, which earned her a spell of imprisonment (1793) in Königstein-Taunus. As a writer she is known today chiefly for her letters. |
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