KAROLINE

SCHELLING (1763-1809)  , one of the most intellectual German women of her age, was born at Gottingen on the 2nd of September 1763, the daughter of the orientalist Michaelis . She married, in 1784, a district medical officer, one Bohmer, in Clausthal in the Harz, and after his death, in 1788, returned to Gottingen . Here she entered into close relations to the poet Gottfried August Burger and the critic of the Romantic school, August Wilhelm Schlegel . In 1791 she took up her residence in Mainz, joined the famous society of the Clubbists (Klubbisten), and suffered a short period of imprison-ment on account of her political opinions . In 1796 she married Schlegel, was divorced in 1803, and then became the wife of the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling . She died at Maulbronn on the 7th of September 1809 . Karoline Schelling played a considerable role in the intellectual movement of her time, and is especially remarkable for the assistance she afforded Schlegel in his translation of Shakespeare's works . She published nothing, however, in her own name . See G . Waltz, Caroline: Briefe an ihre Geschwister, &c . (2 vols., 1871), and, by the same author, Caroline and ihre Freunde (1882); further, J . Janssen, Eine Kulturdame and ihre Freunde, Zeit- and Lebensbilder (1885), and Mrs .

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Sidgwick, Caroline Schlegel and her Friends (London, 1899) .